strike on residential building kills four in western Lviv

This is, according to the authorities, the most destructive attack against civilian infrastructure in Lviv (Ukraine) since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. On the night of Wednesday July 5 to Thursday July 6, the regional capital of western Ukraine was targeted by a salvo of Russian missiles, damaging more than 30 buildings and other buildings, according to local authorities. A strike that notably hit an apartment building left at least four dead and 37 injured.

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“The 3rd and 4th floors of two sections of the building were destroyed”, Ukrainian Interior Minister Igor Klymenko said on Telegram. “I woke up because of the first explosion, but we didn’t have time to leave the apartment. There was a second explosion, the ceiling started to fall”told AFP Olya, a resident. “My mother is dead, my neighbors are dead. At this point, it looks like I’m the only one who survived on the fourth floor.”

The regional governor, Maksym Kozytsky, had reported overnight that “enemy missiles” headed for the western regions of Ukraine. “A Series of Explosions” was then heard in Lviv, according to the mayor, Andriï Sadovyi. “The destruction is enormous, more than 50 apartments were devastated (…) An office building suffered damage”as well as the building of a school and the dormitory of the Polytechnic University of Lviv, he reported. “There will certainly be a response to the enemy. A [réponse] tangible”reacted the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, in a message accompanied by a video on Telegram.