The Ukrainian military has placed the country under an air alert after an overnight Russian drone and missile attack on Ukraine’s western city of Lviv, close to the border with NATO member Poland, killed seven people, including three children.
The Mayor of Lviv, Andriy Sadovy, says Russia had attacked with drones and hypersonic missiles early this Wednesday and among those killed were a baby and two girls aged nine and 14 as well as a woman working as a midwife in the city.
The strike which has left dozens of people wounded and over 50 buildings in the heart of the city including homes, schools and clinics damaged, was coming just a day after at least 50 people were killed and several others wounded in a major strike on a military institute in the central city of Poltava in what is now regarded as Russia’s deadliest single bombardment this year.
Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has asked allies to help stop the terror by providing more air defences, and allowing the use of long-range Western weapons deeper into Russian territory while Russia, on the other hand which has yet to comment on this Wednesday’s strikes on Lviv or on Tuesday’s attack on Poltava, has also said that it would deliver an extremely painful response in the event of long-range strikes on Russian territory by Ukraine.
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