Russian forces targeted a Ukrainian Ground Forces training unit in a missile attack that reportedly left three military personnel dead and 18 wounded, according to an official statement from the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

The military command has not disclosed the specific location or identity of the targeted unit for operational security reasons. However, military analyst Serhii Bezkrestnov, known by his call sign “Flash,” identified the site as the Honcharivskyi training ground in Chernihiv Oblast.

Bezkrestnov suggested that safety protocol violations may have contributed to the casualties, stating that personnel were aware of reconnaissance drone activity in the area and had received air raid warnings.

“Everyone knew that a UAV-spotter was hanging over the object. Everyone heard the alarm,” he wrote in his assessment of the incident.

The Ground Forces have established an investigative commission led by the chief of the Military Law Enforcement Service to determine the circumstances surrounding the personnel losses. Military officials indicated that any commanders found responsible for actions or negligence leading to casualties will face accountability measures.

This attack continues a pattern of Russian strikes against Ukrainian military training facilities.

On 22 June, Russian forces hit a mechanized brigade training ground in southern Kherson Oblast, resulting in three deaths and 11 injuries. Earlier incidents occurred on 4 June in Poltava Oblast and 1 June in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, where an Iskander missile struck a training facility.

President Volodymyr Zelensky on June 19 appointed Brigadier General Hennadii Shapovalov as the new commander of Ukraine's Ground Forces, following the resignation of Mykhailo Drapatyi earlier this month.

Drapatyi stepped down on June 1 after a Russian missile strike killed at least 12 Ukrainian soldiers at a training ground in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. He described the casualties as young recruits who "should have learned, lived, and fought — not died."

Zelensky accepted Drapatyi's resignation and appointed him Commander of the Joint Forces on June 3. An investigation into the incident is ongoing, with the Ground Forces promising accountability if misconduct or negligence is confirmed.

Shapovalov, born in 1978 in Kirovohrad Oblast, is a career officer who graduated from the Military Institute of Tank Troops in Kharkiv and later studied at the National Defense University of Ukraine. He also received training at the U.S. Army War College.

Shapovalov previously led Ukraine's South Operational Command in 2024 and was appointed in February 2025 as Ukraine's representative to the NATO Security Assistance and Training for Ukraine (NSATU) mission in Germany.

Drapatyi, in his final remarks as Ground Forces chief on June 11, said he had overhauled more than half of the command's senior leadership, launched a revamp of recruitment centers, and pushed through reforms focused on decentralization, accountability, and modernization.

Zelensky said Drapatyi's new role would allow him to focus "exclusively on combat issues" as Ukraine faces intensifying Russian attacks across several fronts.

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