Source: BBC News [UK state media]
“Seven people, three of them children, have been killed in Ukraine’s western city of Lviv, according to the mayor, during a fresh wave of Russian attacks overnight. Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovy said Russia had attacked with drones and hypersonic missiles early on Wednesday. Among those killed were a baby and two girls aged nine and 14 as well as a woman working as a midwife in the city, officials said. Explosions were also heard over the capital Kyiv as air defences targeted Russian missiles. Meanwhile, five people were wounded when a hotel was hit and nearby blocks of damaged in the city of Kryvyy Rih, according to officials. … Lviv has largely been spared the worst of the fighting over the two and a half years of war, but last week, Russian strikes targeted its energy infrastructure causing outages, according to officials.” (09/04/24)