A missile attack on an apartment block in western Ukraine's Lviv killed four people on Thursday, in what its mayor said was the biggest attack on civilian infrastructure in the city since Russia's invasion of the country began.
While Russia regularly pounds Ukraine with missiles, artillery and drones, the Lviv region, hundreds of kilometres from the frontlines and near the Polish border, has largely been spared the aerial onslaughts.
"The 3rd and 4th floors in two sections of the house were destroyed... As of 7:00 , 4 people were killed, 9 were injured."More than 50 apartments had been"ruined" and a dormitory at Lviv Polytechnic University had been damaged, Mayor Andriy Sadovyi posted on Telegram."This is the biggest attack on Lviv's civilian infrastructure since the beginning" of Russia's invasion, he said.
A separate video posted by Kozytski showed a multi-storey building with part of its top floor destroyed."As of now, the rubble is being dismantled," he said."We are doing everything possible to... save people." Ukraine has recently bolstered its air defence systems with Western-supplied weapons and the number of Russian missiles and drones breaking through has diminished.Russia launches drone attack on Kyiv, concerns grow over Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant
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