Five “powerful” Russian missiles hit Lviv today, leaving at least six people dead and eight more injured, in a rare fatal attack in the western Ukrainian city near the border with Poland.
“At the moment we are able to confirm that six are dead and eight injured. A child was among the victims,” Maksym Kozytsky, the Lviv regional governor, said on social media.
A Lviv resident told AFP they could see thick clouds of grey smoke in the sky above residential buildings.
“Five powerful missile strikes at once on the civilian infrastructure of the old European city of Lviv,” said Mykhaylo Podolyak, a Ukrainian presidential aide.
“The Russians continue barbarically attacking Ukrainian cities from the air, cynically declaring to the whole world their ‘right’ to kill Ukrainians,” he added.
The city has so far been spared much of the fighting since Russia invaded its neighbour nearly two months ago.
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08:01 AM
Spain to reopen Kyiv embassy in coming days
Spain will reopen its embassy in Kyiv in the coming days, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said in an interview with the Antena3 TV network today.
The Spanish embassy in Ukraine’s capital was evacuated on February 24 when Russian troops invaded the country.
The move comes after several other European countries, including France, recently announced they would move back their embassies to Kyiv.
07:59 AM
Russia says it destroyed four arms depots in Ukraine overnight
Russia’s defence ministry said on Monday it had destroyed four arms and military equipment depots in Ukraine overnight with Iskander missiles, the Russian news agency TASS reported.
Russian forces had hit 315 Ukrainian targets in total overnight, TASS cited the ministry as saying
