Explosions rock Ukraine’s Lviv, mayor says 5 highly effective missiles struck metropolis

The mayor of Lviv mentioned 5 highly effective missiles struck the town and that emergency companies had been pressed into motion.

Five highly effective missiles strike Lviv metropolis. (Photo: AP/Representational)

Multiple explosions rocked the western Ukrainian metropolis of Lviv on Monday believed to be attributable to 5 missiles, in response to an AFP report.

The mayor of Lviv, Andriy Sadovyi, took to Facebook to report that 5 ‘highly effective’ missiles struck the town. He mentioned emergency companies had been responding to the blasts.

Thick clouds of gray smoke crammed the sky above some blocks of flats, a Lviv resident was quoted by AFP.

The metropolis of Lviv has largely been unaffected by the Russian invasion and was thought of to be a protected haven.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in his nightly tackle to the nation, accused Russian troopers of torturing and kidnapping residents in areas they management.

Zelenskyy mentioned, “We are doing everything to ensure the defense” of japanese Ukraine. Russia is bent on capturing the Donbas area.

Russia has relentlessly been finishing up aerial assaults close to Kyiv and different cities. On Sunday, at the very least 5 individuals had been killed by Russian shelling in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest metropolis.

After Russia’s Black Sea Fleet was sunk final week by the Ukrainians, the Kremlin had vowed to step up strikes on the capital. Russia on Sunday claimed that it had attacked an ammunition plant close to Kyiv in a single day with precision-guided missiles.

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