Three people were killed in the city of Lutsk after airstrikes hit western Ukraine overnight, local officials said early yesterday.
Lutsk, which had a pre-war population of more than 200,000, is less than 100km from Ukraine’s border with Poland.
Lutsk Mayor Igor Polishchuk said on Telegram that “there are three dead and three wounded,” adding that emergency services were on site.
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Volyn Governor Yuriy Poguliaiko earlier yesterday said that air defense forces had repelled overnight air attacks.
“But, unfortunately, we had a ‘strike’ at one of the industrial enterprises in the regional center,” he said on Telegram.
Four Ukrainian soldiers in March last year were killed and six wounded in Russian strikes on Lutsk military airport.
About 150km south of Lutsk, Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi said that “many missiles were shot down,” but that “residential buildings got hit” in the strike.
“Fortunately, there were no casualties. Unfortunately, there is a lot of damage,” he said on Telegram.
“More than 100 apartments were damaged, more than 500 windows were broken, and a kindergarten was destroyed” after a missile flew into its yard, he said.
He said four people were wounded, but “there is no threat to their lives.”
A supermarket ceiling collapsed “due to falling missile fragments,” Lviv Governor Maksym Kozytskyi said, adding that more than 10 homes were damaged.
Lviv has mostly been spared the daily bombardments that have hit other parts of Ukraine, but last month 10 people were killed in what Sadovyi said was the biggest Russian missile attack on the city’s civilian infrastructure since the invasion.
UNESCO said that attack was the first to take place in an area protected by the World Heritage Convention and had damaged a historic building.
On the front line, the Ukrainian military on Monday said that it had pushed Russian forces out of pockets of territory in the east and south of the nation, building on a grueling counteroffensive launched two months ago.
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