A missile strike against a residential building killed at least four people and injured nine others on Thursday (July 6th) in Lviv, Ukraine’s Interior Minister announced. Igor Klymenko. Emergency services are mobilized and “there could be more people under the rubble”, said the mayor of this city in western Ukraine, Andriï Sadovyi, in a Telegram message. This is a “direct fire against a residential building” carried out by Russian forces, described the head of the regional administration, Maksym Kozytsky, on Telegram. In images shared by the governor, a building appears badly damaged, devoid of a portion of its highest floors, the windows shattered. Follow our live.
Volodymyr Zelensky promises a “tangible” response. Ukraine’s president on Thursday promised a response “tangible” after the murderous bombardment in Lviv, in a Telegram message accompanied by a video on which we can distinguish several heavily damaged buildings.
Suspected suicide bombing in a kyiv court. Two police officers were injured on Wednesday after a man apparently blew himself up in a Kiev district court, Ukrainian authorities said. The suspect was identified in the evening as Igor Gumenyuk. He had been taken into custody in 2015 after the deaths of four National Guardsmen.
The IAEA is calling for better access to the Zaporijjia plant. The International Atomic Energy Agency on Wednesday demanded access to the entire Ukrainian nuclear power plant in Zaporizhia (south), occupied by Russia, while Kiev and Moscow accuse each other of preparing a provocation on the site.