A Russian missile hit a Ukrainian army training ground, killing three soldiers and wounding 18 others, authorities stated, within the newest assault to embarrass army officers as they battle to make up a extreme manpower scarcity within the almost three-and-a-half-year conflict.
The Russian Defence Ministry stated that the strike killed or wounded about 200 Ukrainian troops. The Ministry stated that Ukraine’s 169th training centre close to Honcharivske within the Chernihiv area was hit with two Iskander missiles, one armed with a number of submunitions and one other with excessive explosives.
Meanwhile, Russia continued its stepped-up aerial marketing campaign in opposition to Ukrainian civilian targets, launching 78 assault drones in a single day, together with as much as eight newly developed jet-powered drones, Ukraine’s air pressure stated Wednesday. At least 5 folks have been wounded.
Civilian casualties
The UN mission in Ukraine says there was a worsening development in civilian casualties from Russian assaults this 12 months, with 6,754 civilians killed or injured within the first half of 2025 — representing a 54% enhance from the identical interval in 2024.
Since Russia launched an all-out invasion of neighbouring Ukraine on February 24, 2022, at least 13,580 Ukrainian civilians, together with 716 kids, have been killed, in response to the UN.
In an effort to cease that, US President Donald Trump stated Tuesday he is giving Russian President Vladimir Putin till August 8 for peace efforts to make progress or Washington will impose punitive sanctions and tariffs.
Western leaders have accused Putin of dragging his ft in US-led peace efforts in an try and seize extra Ukrainian land.
Recent assaults beneath investigation
Ukrainian forces are principally hanging on in opposition to a grinding summer time push by Russia’s greater army, although the Russian Defence Ministry has claimed some current small advances at locations alongside the 1,000-kilometre entrance line.
Ukrainian ground forces acknowledged {that a} Russian strike hit a army training ground within the Chernihiv area of northern Ukraine, however its casualty report differed broadly from one issued by Moscow.
A Russian Defence Ministry video confirmed a number of small explosions apparently brought on by a missile with a shrapnel warhead adopted by one huge blast, apparently from the opposite one armed with a high-explosive warhead.
An analogous Russian strike occurred final September, when two ballistic missiles blasted a Ukrainian army academy and close by hospital, killing greater than 50 folks and wounding greater than 200 others.
Ukrainian authorities stated {that a} fee led by the top of the Military Law Enforcement Service has been shaped to find out whether or not negligence or misconduct by officers contributed to the casualties in Chernihiv.
The assault was the fourth lethal strike in as 5 months on Ukrainian army services. The three earlier strikes killed at least 46 soldiers and wounded greater than 160, in response to official studies.
Ukraine badly wants extra troops
Ukraine can ailing afford to lose extra troops. Though it has greater than 1 million Ukrainians in uniform, together with the National Guard and different models, it badly wants extra.
Deeply rooted issues have bedeviled Ukraine and introduced questions on how Kyiv is managing the conflict, from a flawed mobilization drive to the overstretching and hollowing out of front-line models by means of soldiers going AWOL.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed a invoice Tuesday that permits Ukrainian males over the age of 60 to voluntarily signal contracts with the armed forces. The new regulation permits those that need to contribute their expertise and expertise, significantly in noncombat or specialised roles.
In February, Ukraine’s Defence Ministry started providing new monetary and different advantages that it hopes will entice males between the ages of 18 and 24 to army service. Men in that age group are exempt from the nation’s draft, which covers males between 25 and 60 years previous.
Ukraine lowered its conscription age from 27 to 25, however that has didn’t replenish ranks or exchange battlefield losses.
