Ukraine on Monday (April 18, 2022) confirmed that five missiles have struck its western city of Lviv and have caused multiple explosions.
Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi said on Facebook that five missiles struck the city and that emergency services were responding to the blasts. He said more details would follow.
Lviv, notably, and the rest of western Ukraine have been less affected by the Russia-Ukraine fighting than other parts of the country, and the city was considered to be a relatively safe haven.
Earlier on Sunday, Ukraine`s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy had said that eighteen people have been killed and more than 100 wounded in shelling in the past four days in the northeastern city of Kharkiv.
Meanwhile, after failing to overcome Ukrainian resistance in the north, the Russian military has refocused its ground offensive on Donbas, while launching long-distance strikes at targets elsewhere, including the capital, Kyiv.
Russia terms its action a special military operation to demilitarise Ukraine and eradicate what it calls dangerous nationalists.
