Russian rockets hit Ukraine’s Lviv in two attacks

5 folks wounded after two rockets hit a gasoline depot and two others later hit a navy manufacturing unit within the western metropolis.

Two rockets fired within the first assault injured 5 folks, based on Lviv's governor [Vladyslav Sodel/Reuters]

A number of Russian rockets have struck the western Ukrainian metropolis of Lviv, which has been a haven for displaced folks since Russia’s invasion started on February 24.

Governor Maksym Kozytsky mentioned two rockets struck a gasoline depot within the metropolis’s jap outskirts in mid-afternoon on Saturday, injuring 5 folks, and two rockets later hit a navy manufacturing unit.

He added that he had visited the scene of the primary strikes and that the state of affairs was “underneath management”, however known as on residents to take shelter.

Mayor Andriy Sadoviy mentioned one other air raid had prompted “important injury” to infrastructure services.”

“Residential buildings weren't broken,” he wrote on Twitter with out sharing particulars of the situation.

⚡️⚡️ On account of the brand new missile strikes on Lviv, important injury was prompted to infrastructure services. Residential buildings weren't broken.
The fires proceed to be extinguished.

The suitable companies are engaged on the bottom.

— Андрій Садовий (@AndriySadovyi) March 26, 2022

Lviv, some 60km (37 miles) from the Polish border, had to this point escaped the bombardment and combating that devastated some Ukrainian cities nearer to Russia.

Town had a prewar inhabitants of about 717,000 however has change into a refuge for hundreds of households fleeing the worst of the combating in jap, southern and central Ukraine and a transit hub for folks fleeing the nation.

Regardless of greater than 4 weeks of combating, Russia has to this point did not seize any main Ukrainian metropolis. The battle has killed hundreds of individuals, despatched practically 3.8 million overseas and pushed greater than half of Ukraine’s kids from their houses, based on the United Nations.

Moscow signalled on Friday it was scaling again its navy ambitions to give attention to territory claimed by Russian-backed separatists within the east, earlier than placing the outskirts of Lviv on Saturday.

The strikes on Lviv passed off whereas US President Joe Biden was visiting Poland.

Biden described Russian President Vladimir Putin as a “butcher” throughout his first face-to-face assembly with high Ukrainian officers for the reason that begin of the struggle.

The assembly, held within the Polish capital Warsaw, was Biden’s closing cease on a visit to Europe aimed toward underscoring his opposition to the Russian invasion, his solidarity with Ukraine and his dedication to work carefully with Western allies to confront the disaster.

NATO has to this point dominated out a no-fly zone over Ukraine requested by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, fearing it could result in direct clashes with Russian forces and a Europe-wide escalation.