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Russian modA Russian missile strike on a training exercise in the Ukraine Sumy Border region killed six soldiers and injured more than 10 others, explains the Ukraine National Guard.
The Russian Defense Ministry had previously published a pretending video showing an Iskander missile attack on a training camp, and the TASS state news agency said that up to 70 people.
The Sumy region has been the subject of a repeated bombardment and Ukraine launched an occupation of a month of a part of the Kursk region close to Russia.
The Ukrainian army said that the offensive objective had been to help create a buffer area to protect Sumy, but some have complained of the military losses.
In addition, the Kremlin said that President Vladimir Putin visited Kursk officials the day before, during his first visit to the region since the Ukrainian forces were expelled.
He met volunteers as well as the acting local governor Alexander Khinshtein, and he visited a nearby nuclear power plant, reported the state media.
The Russian deadly strike on Ukrainian soldiers in Sumy was confirmed early Wednesday by the National Guard of Ukraine, who said that the attack had taken place while the unit was carrying out exercises in a shooting field. The commander was suspended and an official investigation was launched, he added.
The Russian military video not verified has shown dozens of soldiers walking on a path near an wooded area followed by an explosion and a large plume of smoke.
Research of the BBC verification has shown that the training camp was targeted in the extreme north of the Sumy region, in one way to a means in the south of the Russian border.
The attack is a blow for the Ukrainian army, and the National Guard said that it had previously developed an “action algorithm” as well as orders to deal with the threat of air strikes and people gathered in the same place.
The Ukraine staff said this week that he had thwarted Russia’s candidacy to establish a “security zone” in the Sumy region, and argued that its operation Kursk had “a strategic meaning”, forcing Russia to divert its “most competent units” to attack the offensive.
The Kremlin also sent thousands of North Korean soldiers to the region in order to take over the region.
However, last week, a battalion commander called Oleksandr Shyrshyn was cited as criticizing the “angular tasks” established by military leadership as well as unjustified losses.
Russia launched its large -scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and has since annexed four eastern regions of the sovereign territory of Ukraine, including large regions which remain under Ukrainian control.
The Kursk offensive of Ukraine has failed to interrupt Russia’s thrust to capture more territory in the east, although its advance along the front lines was very slow.
Ukrainian forces on the oriental sides claim that Russia launched 14 attacks overnight towards Druzhba, Petrivka and Totretsk.
A Ukrainian soldier near the eastern city of Pokrovsk told the BBC that there had also been a major push in the Russian forces.
He said that the invasive troops had targeted a major road which is used as a supply line, adding that they had trouble holding their positions for some time.
The hopes of an imminent ceasefire in the war are on the way, despite low-level talks between Ukraine and Russia in Istanbul last Friday.
Although US President Donald Trump suggested that the Vatican could mediate new talks, the Vatican said that the idea of accommodation, or even mediaking talks more for the moment than any concrete plan.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he was expecting Russia to present its “general terms that would allow us to progress to a ceasefire”, but the Ukraine VolodyMyr Zelensky declared that Russia “was simply trying to buy time in order to continue his war and his profession”.
