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Russia says it struck artillery training center with foreign staff outside Sumy

Konashenkov said a foreign mercenary based was destroyed by a missile strike in the Dachnoye district of the Odessa region
Russian Defense Ministry Spokesman Igor Konashenkov Anton Novoderezhkin/TASS
Russian Defense Ministry Spokesman Igor Konashenkov
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MOSCOW, June 4. /TASS/. Russian Defense Ministry Spokesman Igor Konashenkov on Saturday said Russia’s high-precision air-launched missiles struck a Ukrainian artillery training center with foreign instructors outside Sumy, 27 clusters of troops and ammunition and two command posts.

"High-precision air-launched missiles struck a Ukrainian artillery training center with foreign instructors in the area of the Stetsovka settlement of the Sumy Region," he said. The spokesman said foreign instructors used the center to tarin Ukrainians on using operating 155-mm M777 Howitzers.

Konashenkov said a foreign mercenary based was destroyed by a missile strike in the Dachnoye district of the Odessa region.

"In addition, 27 clusters of troops and military equipment of the armed forces of Ukraine were hit, and two command posts of the armed forces of Ukraine, six depots of missile and artillery weapons, ammunition and fuel in the areas of the settlements of Vesyoloye and Bakhmut of the Donetsk People's Republic, Spornoye, Podlesnoye and Loskutovka of the Lugansk People's Republic were destroyed," he said.