A Russian strike targets a base near the Polish border. Russian forces on Sunday bombed a military base in western Ukraine, an area hitherto relatively spared from the conflict, Ukrainian authorities said. This military base is located in Yavoriv, about forty kilometers northwest of Lviv and about twenty kilometers from the border with Poland, a NATO member country. It has served in recent years as a training ground for Ukrainian forces under the supervision of foreign instructors, notably American and Canadian.
The Russians are trying to surround Kiev. Present in the suburbs of the capital, the Russian forces are seeking to eliminate the defenses to the west and north of the city to “block” it, according to the Ukrainian general staff. The Ukrainians on Saturday accused Russian soldiers of killing seven civilians, including a child, who were using an evacuation corridor near Kiev on Friday.
Nearly 13,000 civilians evacuated. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced in a video address on Sunday that 12,729 civilians had been evacuated on Saturday through humanitarian corridors. According to Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk, only nine of the evacuation corridors functioned.