SEVEN people, including three children, have been killed after Russia launched fresh attacks in Ukraine just a day after Putin’s missile blitz left another 51 dead.
The drone and missile strike in the western town of Lviv – just 30 miles from the border with Nato member Poland – also saw 30 people injured.
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Wednesday’s attacks came a day after the war’s deadliest single attack this year, when Russia hit a military institute in the central town of Poltava with two ballistic missiles, killing 51 and wounding hundreds more.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called on allies to help with air defences and advocate to allow long-range strikes into Russia on Wednesday, following Moscow’s deadly attack on Lviv.
He said: “Everyone who persuades partners to give Ukraine more long-range capability to respond to terror fairly is working to prevent exactly these kinds of Russian terrorist strikes on Ukrainian cities.”
Andriy Sadovyi, the mayor of Lviv city, which is the administrative centre of the wider Lviv region, said the dead included a midwife nurse and a man, while 35 people were receiving medical aid.
In a video posted on Telegram that showed the mayor among the debris of a destroyed building, he said more than 50 structures, from schools to homes and clinics, most of them in the heart of the city, had been damaged.
Neighbouring Poland scrambled aircraft on Wednesday for the third time in eight days to maintain the safety of its airspace, the armed forces’ operational command said.
“This is another very busy night for the entire air defence system in Poland due to … the long-range aviation of the Russian Federation carrying out strikes,” the command said on X.
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