Moscow says it has destroyed military industrial sites in night strikes

Local officials said Tuesday morning that night strikes targeted the cities of Lviv and Lutsk in western Ukraine.

“Many missiles were shot down, but there were also strikes in Lviv”The city’s mayor, Andrei Sadovy, said on Telegram, adding that “Residential buildings” have been affected. “There is a fire on the upper floors. We are evacuating people.”The elected official added, explaining that the competent authorities are present at the site.

In Lutsk, about 150 kilometers northeast of Lviv, ” we’ve got [eu] a hit “ In a company building in the industrial sector, Yuri Pohoulyaïko, governor of the Volyn region, of which Lutsk is a regional center, said this in Telegram. The official added that two people were injured.

In March 2022, four Ukrainian servicemen were killed and six others injured in the Russian military’s bombing of Lutsk Air Base.

Rarely targeted is a large city in western Ukraine. Lviv, less than 100 kilometers from the Polish border, was the target of a Russian strike in July that killed 10 people. The Russian missile barrage destroyed more than thirty apartment buildings and other buildings, according to local authorities.