INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
A missile that hit an apartment block in Ukraine's Lviv killed four people on Thursday, in what its mayor said was the biggest attack on
and drones, the Lviv region in the west, hundreds of kilometers from the frontlines and near the Polish border, has largely been spared the
aerial onslaughts."An apartment building was damaged as a result of the Russian missile attack," Ukraine's Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko
wrote on Telegram."The 3rd and 4th floors in two sections of the house were destroyed..
As of 7:00 a.m., four people were killed, nine were injured."Rescuers were working to reach those still trapped under rubble, he said.AFP
footage showed emergency responders clearing rubble and wood from the gutted first floor of a building in the city.Cars covered in dust and
with their windows blown out lined a pavement piled with debris.One elderly lady carried a cage with a bird inside away from the scene."I
woke up from the first explosion, but we didn't have time to leave the apartment," Olya, 37, told AFP."There was a second explosion, the
ceiling started to fall, my mother was immediately hit," she said."I got to the window, started screaming, and in about half an hour the
rescuers got to me, took me out and took me to the 8th hospital," Olya added."I came back and found out that my mother had died, my
At this point, it seems that I was the only one who survived from the fourth floor
It's a miracle."More than 50 apartments were "ruined" and a dormitory at Lviv Polytechnic University was damaged, Mayor Andriy Sadovyi
A tangible one."It was unclear how many missiles had been launched.Earlier, regional governor Maksym Kozytski said several missiles were
"moving in the direction of the western regions," citing Ukraine's Air Force Command.Unverified videos posted to Telegram purporting to show
showed the same strike.On June 20, Lviv was hit by a major Russian drone assault that also targeted other cities including Kyiv.Ukraine has
recently bolstered its air defense systems with Western-supplied weapons and the number of Russian missiles and drones breaking through has
diminished.But the spokesman for Ukraine's air force, Yuriy Ignat, recently said that newly supplied systems were still insufficient to
in occupied areas, Zelensky said in a TV interview broadcast Wednesday."Our slowed-down counteroffensive is happening due to certain
difficulties in the battlefield
Everything is heavily mined there," he told CNN via a translator in the pre-taped interview.
