Explosions rock Ukraine's Lviv, mayor says 5 powerful missiles struck city
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The mayor of Lviv said five powerful missiles struck the city and that emergency services had been pressed into action.
Multiple explosions rocked the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on Monday believed to be caused by five missiles, according to an AFP report.
The mayor of Lviv, Andriy Sadovyi, took to Facebook to report that five 'powerful' missiles struck the city. He said emergency services were responding to the blasts.
Thick clouds of grey smoke filled the sky above some blocks of flats, a Lviv resident was quoted by AFP.
The city of Lviv has largely been unaffected by the Russian invasion and was considered to be a safe haven.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in his nightly address to the nation, accused Russian soldiers of torturing and kidnapping citizens in areas they control.
Zelenskyy said, “We are doing everything to ensure the defense” of eastern Ukraine. Russia is bent on capturing the Donbas region.
Russia has relentlessly been carrying out aerial attacks near Kyiv and other cities. On Sunday, at least five people were killed by Russian shelling in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city.
