Three British ex-special forces troops are reportedly feared to have died in Russian airstrike near Polish border

Three British former particular forces troopers are feared to have been killed in a Russian airstrike close to the Polish border.

Greater than 30 Russian cruise missiles focused the Yavoriv base yesterday, killing as many as 180 folks.

The trio weren’t a part of the international legion preventing unit being educated on the base six miles from the border, sources informed The Mirror.

Igor Konashenkov, a spokesman for Russia’s ministry of defence, stated the bottom was struck by ‘long-range, high-precision’ weapons as a result of it was internet hosting ‘international mercenaries and a big cargo of international weapons’.

He added: ‘The destruction of international mercenaries who arrived on the territory of Ukraine will proceed.’

Konashenkov stated as much as 180 folks had been killed within the strike, although Ukraine initially stated 35 folks died and one other 134 had been wounded.

However a supply informed The Mirror at present: ‘There have been many extra killed throughout the web site than has been claimed and our bodies are nonetheless being discovered.

‘I don’t consider the three British ex-military personnel would have recognized something about it, happily.

‘That is extraordinarily delicate as there are believed to be no serving British navy personnel inside Ukraine as politically that will be extraordinarily controversial.’

Bombs fell on the bottom early Sunday morning, with witnesses saying most of the international recruits had been sleeping when the strike was carried out.

In line with Mail On-line, British navy veterans on the base who survived the assault described listening to the sound of incoming engines earlier than a number of giant blasts destroyed one constructing, broken one other, and sprayed shell fragments by the air. It’s thought the bottom was hit by Russian cruise missiles versus fighter jets.

James, a former British artillery soldier recognized solely by his first identify, informed Buzzfeed of listening to the sound of incoming missiles as he was in mattress, saying: ‘I simply lied there and thought: I’ll die.’

‘A few buildings obtained hit… One they decimated and there was one which was on fireplace. After which there was simply frag[mentation] all over the place. And a crater… in the course of camp.’

On Monday, a Russian airstrike on the capital Kyiv killed a minimum of two folks and wounded others because it blew up and set gentle to an condominium constructing.

A city councilor for Brovary, east of Kyiv, was additionally killed in preventing there as shells fell on the cities of Irpin, Bucha, and Hostomel.

Ukrainian officers stated two extra folks died and 7 had been injured after Russian forces struck an airplane manufacturing unit in Kyiv, sparking a big fireplace.