KYIV: Russia launched a new barrage of drones and missiles in an overnight attack on Ukraine on Saturday, targeting the west of the country and killing at least two people in the city of Chernivtsi on the border with Romania.<\/p>\n
Western Ukrainian cities of Lviv, Lutsk, and Chernivtsi suffered the most due to the Russian attacks, and other Ukrainian regions were also hit, Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha said.<\/p>\n
\u201cRussia continues to escalate its terror, launching another barrage of hundreds of drones and missiles, damaging residential areas, killing and injuring civilians,\u201d Sybiha said in a post on X, reiterating the call for stronger sanctions against Moscow.<\/p>\n
\u201cRussia\u2019s war machine produces hundreds of means of terror per day.<\/p>\n
Its scale poses a threat not only to Ukraine, but to the entire transatlantic community.\u201d Ruslan Zaparaniuk, the governor of the Chernivetskyi region, said that two people were killed and 14 others wounded as Russian drones and a missile struck the city, located about 40 kilometers from Ukraine\u2019s border with Romania.<\/p>\n
Several fires broke out across the city, and residential houses and administrative buildings were damaged, regional officials said.<\/p>\n
In the city of Lviv, on Ukraine\u2019s border with Poland, 46 residential houses, a university building, the city\u2019s courts, and about 20 buildings housing small and medium-sized businesses were damaged in the attack, mayor Andriy Sadovyi said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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