Russian attack kills one, sets fire in western Ukraine city of Lviv: officials

KYIV (Reuters) – Russia targeted three industrial warehouses in a drone strike in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv early on Tuesday, causing a large fire and killing at least one person, local officials said.

Lviv Governor Maxim Kozitsky said firefighters were extinguishing the fire and that a 26-year-old man had been taken to hospital. The city’s mayor, Andriy Sadovyi, later said that the body of a man who worked in one of the warehouses had been found under the rubble.

Emergency services said the fire had spread over an area of ​​9,450 square meters (11,300 square yards) after an attack at around 5 am (0200 GMT).

“I want to emphasize that these are ordinary industrial warehouses. Nothing military was stored there,” Kozitsky said on the Telegram messaging app.

He said Russian forces had launched 18 drones in the attack and that 15 had been shot down, including seven that were directly over the Lviv region.

Ukraine’s air force said Russia had launched a total of 30 drones and an Iskander ballistic missile in strikes into Ukraine overnight, and that 27 of the drones had been shot down.

Reuters could not independently verify the report. There was no immediate comment from Moscow, which has carried out frequent airstrikes against Ukraine since Russia’s large-scale invasion in February 2022.

Russia has repeatedly attacked infrastructure critical to Ukraine’s defense, energy system and agriculture, but has also killed many civilians. At least seven people They were killed in July, when a Russian missile crashed into a residential building in Lviv, which is far from the front lines.

Moscow has denied deliberately attacking civilians or civilian infrastructure.

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