A Russian airstrike on the western Ukrainian city of Lviv killed seven people, including three children, Mayor Andriy Sadovy said on the Telegram messaging app on Wednesday (4).
The bombing is also believed to have injured more than 30 people and destroyed historic buildings in the heart of the city, regional authorities said.
The Russian offensive took place not far from the border with Poland, a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
Russia carried out the strike a day after the deadliest explosion of the war this year, when it hit a military institute in the central city of Poltava with two ballistic missiles, killing 50 people and wounding hundreds.
Among the children killed in Lviv by drone and missile strikes was a 14-year-old girl, according to initial details released by regional governor Maksym Kozytskyi.
Andriy Sadovyi, mayor of the city of Lviv, which is the administrative center of the region, said a midwife and a man had died, while 35 people were receiving medical assistance.
In a video posted on Telegram showing the mayor standing amid the rubble of a destroyed building, he said more than 50 structures, from schools to homes and clinics, most of them in the heart of the city, had been damaged.
A Reuters witness in the city also reported damage to buildings.
Neighboring Poland sent aircraft on Wednesday for the third time in eight days to maintain the security of its airspace, the operational command of the armed forces said.
“This is another very busy night for the entire air defense system in Poland due to the long-range aviation of the Russian Federation carrying out strikes,” the command said on X.
On Wednesday, Russia also hit Kiev and several other regions with missiles, but no immediate damage was reported.
Russia has been bombarding Ukraine with hundreds of missiles and drones over the past 10 days, in what some Russian military bloggers have called Moscow’s response to Kiev’s recent incursion into its territory.
Russia has not yet commented on the attacks on Poltava and today’s attacks in Lviv and Kiev.
Moscow often says its strikes target Ukraine’s military, energy and transport infrastructure, not civilians.
(With input from Andriy Perun in Lviv, Anastasiia Malenko, Gleb Garanich and Pavel Polityuk in Kiev, and Valentyn Ogirenko)
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