Russian cruise missile attack on Ukraine city of Lviv kills 4 people and injures dozens
Russia fired cruise missiles on Thursday at a western Ukraine city far from the front line of the war, killing at least four people in an apartment building in what officials said was the heaviest attack on civilian areas of Lviv since the Kremlin's forces invaded the country last year. The nighttime attack destroyed the roof and the top two floors of a residential building, injuring 34 people. Emergency crews with search dogs went through the rubble.
The youngest victim was 21 years old and the oldest was 95, according to Maksym Kozytskyi, head of Regional Military Administration. «This woman survived the Second World War but, unfortunately, she didn't survive» Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Kozytskyi said. Debris and wrecked parked cars lined the street outside the building, which overlooks a small neighbourhood park with swings and climbing frames amid trees.
Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi said around 60 apartments and 50 cars in the area of strike were damaged. He announced two days of official mourning. US Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink described the attack as «vicious».
«Russia's repeated attacks on civilians are absolutely horrifying,» she tweeted. Ukraine's air force reported it intercepted seven of the 10 Kalibr cruise missiles that Russia fired from Black Sea toward the Lviv region and its namesake city — more than 800 kilometers (500 miles) away — around 1 am on Thursday. The Kremlin's forces have repeatedly hit civilian areas during the war, though Russian officials say they choose only targets of military value.
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