Over 400 drones launched at Ukraine in middle of day, says Ukraine\u2019s air force
\n Moscow
\nA rare Russian daytime drone attack on Ukraine killed at least three people, wounded 30 and set a building in the centuries-old centre of western Lviv aflame on Tuesday, officials said, following an overnight bombardment that killed five people across the country.
\nOver 400 drones were launched at Ukraine in the middle of the day, Ukraine\u2019s air force said, an abrupt change from Russia\u2019s usual tactic of launching similarly massive aerial attacks at night during its more than four-year-old war.
\nVideo footage posted online showed a drone crashing into an old building next to a church in the historic centre of Lviv, some 60 kilometres (37 miles) from the Polish border.<\/p>\n
Unesco site hit, casualties mount
\nIn another western Ukrainian city, Ivano-Frankivsk, two people were killed and four injured, according to regional Governor Svitlana Onyshchuk. City mayor Ruslan Martsinkiv said windows at a maternity hospital had been blown out, but that nobody in the hospital was harmed.
\nVinnytsia Governor Natalia Zabolotna said on Telegram that one person had been killed and 11 wounded in her region.
\nLviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi said a residential building was hit by a second drone, while debris from a third drone fell in a street.
\n\u201cRussia is attacking a crowded city centre in broad daylight,\u201d Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko wrote on X.
\nLviv regional governor Maksym Kozytskyi said part of the Unesco World Heritage Site around the 17th-century St. Andrew\u2019s Church had been damaged.
\nAir defences also engaged drones throughout the day near Kyiv.
\nUkraine\u2019s air force posted warnings on social media of drones overhead in more than a dozen areas across the country.
\nOfficials in Vinnytsia and Ternopil, both several hundred kilometres from the frontline, said explosions were heard in their cities and told residents to remain in shelters.<\/p>\n
Overnight attack
\nThe daytime strikes came after a wave of overnight strikes that killed five people across Ukraine and caused disruption to power supplies in Moldova. Ukraine\u2019s air force said Russia had launched 34 missiles and 392 drones overnight and that 25 missiles and 365 drones had been downed or neutralised.
\nTwo people were killed and 12 injured, including a five-year-old child, in the attack near the eastern city of Poltava, a regional official said.
\nPresident Volodymyr Zelenskiy said damage had been reported in 11 regions and issued a new appeal for allies to supply Kyiv with air defence munitions.
\nHe has repeatedly warned that Kyiv, whose main supplier of air defence systems against ballistic missiles is the United States, will face a deficit of missiles while Washington is focused on the US-Israeli war on Iran.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s important to continue supporting Ukraine. It\u2019s important that all agreements on air defence are implemented on time,\u201d he said on X.
\nMoldovan Foreign Minister Mihai Popsoi said the Isaccea\u2013Vulcanesti power line, Moldova\u2019s key link with Europe, had been affected.
\nMoldovan President Maia Sandu wrote on X: \u201cAlternative routes are in place, but the situation remains fragile. Russia alone bears responsibility.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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