Yavoriv military base

Yavoriv military base
Yavoriv, Lviv Oblast in Ukraine
A checkpoint at the Yavoriv facility
Yavoriv military base is located in Lviv Oblast
Yavoriv military base
Yavoriv military base
Yavoriv military base is located in Ukraine
Yavoriv military base
Yavoriv military base
Coordinates50°00′24.1″N 23°30′02.3″E / 50.006694°N 23.500639°E / 50.006694; 23.500639
Area39,000 hectares (390 km2)
Site information
OwnerMinistry of Defence (Ukraine)
Site history
Battles/wars2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine

The International Center for Peacemaking and Security (Ukrainian: Міжнаро́дний центр миротво́рчості та безпе́ки, romanizedMizhnarodnyi tsentr myrotvorchosti ta bezpeky), also known as the Yavoriv military base (Я́ворівський військовий поліго́н),[a] is a military training facility of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the city of Yavoriv in western Ukraine, some 10 km from the border with Poland and 30 kilometers northwest of Lviv in Yavoriv district. The facility houses an International Center for Peacekeeping and Security within the framework of the Ukraine–NATO Partnership for Peace program and the National Military Academy Hetman Petro Sahaidatschnyj. The base covers an area of around 390 km2 (151 sq miles) and can accommodate up to 1,790 people.[1][2] The course covers an area of 36,153 hectares; until the creation of the Yavoriv National Park, it was 42,000 hectares in size.[3]

View of the landscape in 2008


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  1. ^ "Ukrainian PfP Training Centre" (PDF). NATO. 20 October 2003.
  2. ^ "Ukraine war: Missiles hit military site near western city of Lviv". BBC News. 13 March 2022. Retrieved 13 March 2022.
  3. ^ "Новоженець хоче відібрати у військових частину Яворівського полігону" [Novozhenets wants to take away a part of the Yavoriv test site from the military]. portal.lviv.ua (in Ukrainian). 1 June 2005. Archived from the original on 4 October 2013.

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