A missile attack that hit a residential building on Thursday killed three people in Lvivsaid the mayor of this city in western Ukraine, far away from the front.
“Three dead already,” he declared. Andriy Sandovyi in a message on Telegram, where he had also reported “eight injuries” and “numerous apartments” damaged.
The mayor pointed out that the emergency services were mobilized and that “there could be more people under the rubble.”
“A person in serious condition was evacuated by ambulance,” Sandovyi had said earlier.
It is a “direct shot against a residential property” carried out by the russian forcessaid the head of the regional administration Maksim Kozitski in the same social network.
In images shared by the governor, a heavily damaged building is seen, which has lost part of the highest floors and has broken windows.
Hundreds of kilometers from the front, Lviv and its border region with Poland have already been targeted in the past since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022.
On the night of June 19-20, a “critical infrastructure” of Lviv was raided by drones, Kositski said.
In March, five people were killed in an attack on a residential neighborhood of Velyka Vilshanytsya in this region.
