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Up till Sunday morning, the Lviv area in western Ukraine was a secure haven in a war-torn nation.
It was the place households dwelling additional east despatched their youngsters to maintain them secure.
Vasyl Kunets, a driver who lives in Novoyavorivsk, a city about 20 miles from Lviv, stated that up till now, when the sirens indicating a possible air raid went off, he wasn’t too anxious. He’d go to security, however maybe not as quick as he ought to have.
The warfare was nonetheless distant.
That every one modified when Russian strikes hit the Yavoriv army coaching floor on the fringe of Novoyavorivsk and killed 35 folks, the Lviv regional administration stated Sunday.
Greater than 30 missiles fired from warplanes over the Black and Azov seas had hit the army base, stated Maksym Kozytsky, head of the Lviv regional army administration, in a press release posted to Fb Sunday.
All of a sudden, the warfare was on Kunets’ doorstep.
The coaching base is intertwined with the life within the city. Lots of its residents are employed there, or in providers supporting it. Those that don’t work for it instantly know somebody who does.
Kunets noticed the harm they’ve inflicted first hand.
“I noticed when the rocket hit the bottom, I’ve seen the explosion and the smoke, a mushroom cloud of smoke and fireplace,” he advised CNN.
“It lasted half-hour and I heard perhaps eight strikes, perhaps some rockets crashing or a part of rockets exploding individually, I don’t know.”
Kunets advised CNN the assault in opposition to the bottom “modified all the pieces.”
“We’re anxious now. I am not anxious for myself however for my children. Persons are anxious concerning the security of their households and a few of them are contemplating shifting elsewhere,” he stated.
Kunets stated he’s now fascinated by sending his two youngsters away from Ukraine — one thing he didn’t essentially contemplate earlier than.
“It feels much less secure and extra harmful. Yesterday and the day earlier than yesterday we had been extra relaxed and once we heard the alarms we did not transfer so fast, we did not take it too severely. However immediately we’re packing and being prepared to depart very quick once we hear the alarm,” he stated.
CNN’s Sofiya Harbuziuk contributed reporting to this submit.