Early on Tuesday, drone attacks struck Lviv, a border city with Poland and one of the safest in the country, leading to explosions that triggered a warehouse fire and injured at least one person.
Drones attacked Ukraine’s western city of Lviv early Tuesday, and explosions rang out, causing a warehouse fire and wounding at least one person.
The city of Lviv, close to the Polish border, is seen as one of the safest in Ukraine, but it has experienced more attacks recently. Air strikes killed three people in August.
Several waves of drones buzzed overhead, starting around 0130 GMT, and an AFP journalist heard numerous explosions and movements of heavy vehicles through the streets during the nightly curfew.
The Ukrainian Air Force said that drones were attacking the city and air defenses were operating.
On Telegram, Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi wrote that “as a result of an attack, an industrial warehouse is burning in one of Lviv’s districts.”
“So far, we know of one person who was injured by the attack,” he added, saying, “All Russians should burn in hell.”
Maksym Kozytskyi, the head of the Lviv region’s military administration, said: “Two people were rescued from the rubble in Lviv, a man and a woman. The woman is initially believed to have no injuries. The man is in a serious condition.”
“The threat has passed,” he wrote after the all-clear sounded at 0300 GMT, thanking air defense forces.
In Ukraine’s southern Mykolaiv region, ten drones “were destroyed” overnight, governor Vitaliy Kim said on Telegram.
Miroslava Salazar, with AFP
