Amid the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, new missile strikes and shelling on the edges of the capital Kyiv and the western city of Lviv were reported on Friday.
The early morning barrage of missiles on the outskirts of Lviv was the closest strike yet to the centre of the city, which has become a sanctuary city for Ukrainians fleeing the Russian invasion, and for others entering to deliver aid or fight, international media reported.
Black smoke billowed for hours after the explosions, which hit a facility for repairing military aircraft near the city’s international airport about six kilometres from the city centre.
One person was wounded, regional governor Maksym Kozytskyy was quoted as saying. Quoting witnesses, reports said that multiple blasts hit in quick succession around 6 am, shaking nearby buildings.
The missiles were launched from the Black Sea, but the Ukrainian air force’s western command said it had shot down two of six missiles in the volley. A bus repair facility was also damaged, Lviv’s mayor Andriy Sadoviy said.
Early morning barrages also hit a residential building on the northern edges of Kyiv, killing at least one person, according to emergency services, who said 98 people were evacuated from the building.
Two others were killed when strikes hit residential and administrative buildings in the eastern city of Kramatorsk, according to the regional governor, Pavlo Kyrylenko, and Ukraine’s State Service of Special Communications and Information Protection.
In city after city around Ukraine, hospitals, schools and buildings where people sought safety have been attacked.
Rescue workers searched for survivors in the ruins of a theatre that served as a shelter when it was blown apart by a Russian airstrike in the besieged southern city of Mariupol on Wednesday.
And in Merefa, near the north-east city of Kharkiv, at least 21 people were killed when Russian artillery destroyed a school and a community centre on Thursday, a local official said.
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