After heavy Russian missile strikes against the western Ukrainian city of Lviv has Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced support for the reconstruction of destroyed houses“Lviv needs help! The target of the Russian attack was the city center. Many historic buildings were damaged,” Tusk wrote on the X platform.
At night was Lviv target of Russian air strikes. at least seven people killed and at least 38 injured Mayor Andriy Sadovyi announced. Three of the dead be ChildrenA residential building in the centre near the train station caught fire. In addition, in the old town of Lviv several residential buildings as well as schools and medical facilities damaged.
Lviv is only 70 kilometers from the border with EU and NATO country PolandMany internally displaced people from the embattled east of Ukraine have found refuge there.
The city had belonged to Poland since the Middle Ages, was annexed to the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the end of the 18th century and returned to Poland after the First World War. In 1939, as a result of the Hitler-Stalin Pact, the city fell under the Soviet occupation of eastern Poland, was taken over by the Germans in 1941 and later finally returned to the Soviet Union.
New call for Western arms deliveries to Ukraine
The Ukrainian President Volodymyr Selenskyj condemned the “Russian terrorist attacks on Ukrainian cities”. He called on the Western allies againhis country quickly to deliver new air defence systems and the Use of long-range weapons already delivered for attacks on Russian territory to enable.
Only on Tuesday were one of the most devastating Russian attacks since the beginning of the war in the central Ukrainian city of Poltava According to Ukrainian sources, at least 51 people were killed and 271 others injured. Russian missiles hit a military training center and a hospital.
Lviv has so far been largely spared from massive Russian air strikes. Last week, however, the city’s energy infrastructure was hit by Russian attacks, causing numerous power outages (dpa, AFP).
