Russian forces have launched “more than 1,080 missiles” since the start of the invasion of Ukraine, according to information from a senior US defense official on Friday.
Reports of missile attacks in western Ukraine “in the vicinity of Lviv International Airport appear to be accurate,” the official said.
The city mayor’s office informed the CNN that at least one missile hit the area. In a Facebook post, Mayor Andriy Sadovyi said the hit site was an aircraft repair company. The operation was halted due to the Russian invasion, so no personnel were on site at the time of the attack.
The US official had no additional data on the origin of the missile strikes in western Ukraine or how much damage they caused at this time.
Airspace over Ukraine “remains contested,” the official added.
Ukraine’s Armed Forces issued an optimistic assessment of its defense of Kiev, saying Russia’s two main routes to attack the capital had been blocked.
Faced with a move to apparently surround the capital ahead of a possible attempt to take it, Russian forces on both sides of the Dnipro River – which divides the city from north to south – were stopped, according to Oleksandr Hruzevych, deputy chief of police. army personnel.
Source: CNN Brasil
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