Russian Missile Strikes On Lviv

Seven people were killed and several injured in Russian missile strikes on the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, shattering the calm in a place that had remained mostly unharmed in the war as Russia expanded its strikes across Ukraine.

Seven people were killed and several injured in Russian missile strikes on the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, shattering the calm in a place that had remained mostly unharmed in the war as Russia expanded its strikes across Ukraine.

 Russian cruise missiles injured 11 people, including the child of a family that had fled to the safety of western Ukraine. Three of the missiles hit military infrastructure and one missile struck a tire-service shop, damaging nearby houses and vehicles.

 The strikes on Lviv came as Russian missiles and artillery hit hundreds of targets, leading to civilian deaths and destruction in several other Ukrainian cities, as Russia ramps up for an offensive to seize control over the eastern Donbas area. Ukrainian authorities reported four civilian deaths in a Russian attack in the front-line city of Kreminna, in the Luhansk region of the Donbas, and said they had lost control of the city. Shelling in Kharkiv, eastern Ukraine’s largest city, killed two civilians, with shells falling on playgrounds near residential buildings. 

 Ukrainian troops in the port city of Mariupol, meanwhile, continued to hold out a day after they rejected a Russian ultimatum to surrender. Russia has sought to capture the city to free up troops for its Donbas offensive and secure a land corridor from Russian-held territory in the east to the Crimean Peninsula. 

The Ukrainian armed forces’ General Staff said that there were signs that Russia was beginning its new offensive in the east. Russia’s main efforts are focused on establishing full control over the territory of Donetsk and Luhansk regions and maintaining the previously captured territory.