Russian missile strike on Lviv kills four, injures more than 30

As a result of a Russian strike in Lviv on the night of July 6, debris from a missile hit an apartment building, destroying apartments on two floors. As of 08:00, four people are known to have died, while 32 people were injured, reports RBC-Ukraine. According to the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, seven people have been rescued and another 64 people were evacuated.

The head of the State Emergency Service, Serhiy Kruk, speaking about the attack on Lviv, stressed that the city, located near the border with Poland, had sheltered thousands of Ukrainians during the war.

Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi called the missile strike “one of the largest attacks on civilian infrastructure” since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russian troops. “A lot of destruction — more than 50 houses were destroyed,” he said, adding that the damage was estimated at tens of millions of hryvnias (hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars).

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky posted footage of the destruction in Lviv on Telegram and expressed his condolences to the families of the victims. “There will definitely be a response. A tangible one,” he added.