Seven dead in Lviv in fresh wave of strikes on Ukraine

Source: BBC

Seven dead in Lviv in fresh wave of strikes on Ukraine

4 September 2024

Paul Kirby
BBC News
Reporting from London
Nick Beake
Europe correspondent in Poltava

Seven people, three of them children, have been killed in Ukraine's western city of Lviv, according to the mayor, during a fresh wave of Russian attacks.

The strike came as Ukraine was still reeling from the deaths of at least 50 people at a military institute in the central city of Poltava on Tuesday.

Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovy said Russia had attacked with drones and hypersonic missiles early on Wednesday. Among those killed were a baby and two girls aged nine and 14 as well as a woman working as a midwife in the city, officials said.

Explosions were also heard over the capital Kyiv as air defences targeted Russian missiles.

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Dozens of buildings were damaged in the heart of Lviv (President Volodymyr Zelensky/X)