Russian drone attack on a city in western Ukraine sparks an inferno at a warehouse and kills 1
Russia launched a massive drone attack on the western city of Lviv early Tuesday, burning down a warehouse said to house humanitarian supplies and killing one man, Ukrainian authorities said. It was one of at least three deadly attacks in different cities.
Ukraine intercepted most of the 30 Shahed drones overnight, the country's air force said.
But drones that got through air defense systems sparked an inferno at the industrial storage facility, Gov. Maksym Kozytsky said.
The U.N.
humanitarian coordinator for Ukraine condemned the drone strikes and said they had burned down a charity's warehouse that contained vital relief supplies. Denise Brown said the attack violated international humanitarian law that protects workers, facilities and supplies.
«Attacks impacting humanitarian assets have escalated throughout the year and ultimately impact those who are suffering the horrific consequences of the war,» Brown said.
In other Russian attacks, a guided aerial bomb killed three civilians in Kupyansk, a city in the eastern Kharkiv region, and an artillery strike in Kherson in the south struck a bus, killing a police sergeant and wounding two men, Ukrainian officials said.
That strike also torched a warehouse.
Russia invaded Ukraine in February last year. Troops from both sides are currently engaged in fierce battles in the country's east, where Ukrainian forces are making slow but steady advances as part of a grinding counteroffensive.
On Tuesday, Russia blamed Ukraine for an explosion that struck a market in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk region two weeks ago, killing at least 16 people and injuring more than 30 others.
Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Ukraine had fired the missile from a Buk
