War against Ukraine
Russia attacks Lviv with kamikaze drones
Rescue workers extinguishing fire after a Russian air strike on the western Ukrainian city of Lviv. photo
© —/Ukrainian Emergency Service/AP/dpa
A Russian drone hits just 80 kilometers east of the Polish border. Russian air strikes are also taking place elsewhere in Ukraine.
A total of 15 of the 18 kamikaze drones were shot down while approaching the Lviv region, the regional military administration wrote on Telegram. The rest hit several warehouses in the city. According to the military administration, the buildings served as simple industrial storage facilities and did not store any military equipment.
Attacks also in other Ukrainian regions
Other parts of Ukraine also reported Russian attacks – according to the military administration, ten Iranian-designed “Shahed-136/131” drones were shot down at dawn over the southern Ukrainian region of Mykolaiv alone. In the southern city of Krivyi Rih, a drone hit a multi-story residential building, starting a fire, according to authorities. Another drone was shot down.
In total, the Russian army used 30 kamikaze drones and an “Iskander-M” missile during the night, as the Ukrainian Air Force announced on Telegram. 27 drones were shot down. The attacks are said to have been launched – as on the previous day – from the western shore of the Sea of Azov and from the Crimean peninsula, which was annexed by Russia in violation of international law in 2014. The information provided by the warring parties often cannot be independently confirmed.
Ukraine has been fending off a Russian invasion with Western support for more than a year and a half.