After a series of explosions in Lviv today, September 4, seven people were killed and 64 more were injured.
Updated at 13:19. This was reported by the head of the regional military administration Maksym Kozitsky after the completion of the emergency rescue operations.
September 5 in Lviv is a day of mourning.
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Explosions in Lviv today, September 4: what is known
A series of explosions in Lviv today, September 4, was the result of a missile and drone attack by the Russian army.
Russian troops attacked the city first with Shahed-136/131 attack drones, then with missiles, including aeroballistic Kh-47M Dagger.
The area of the railway station (near the Church of Olha and Elizaveta) and Frankivskyi (not far from Rynok Square) were damaged by the hits in Lviv.
A total of 156 buildings were damaged by shelling in Lviv today (mostly residential buildings, three schools, two medical institutions, etc.).
At least seven local architectural monuments were damaged by hits in Lviv.
In particular, this concerns the regional center for sports medicine and rehabilitation, located in the villa of Jozefa Franz on Konovalets Street.
The infrastructure of the Lviv International Airport, on whose territory the debris of the downed missile was found, is not damaged.
People have been evacuated from six houses.
Explosions in Lviv: the dead, injured, and rescued
During the explosions in Lviv today, September 4, seven people died.
In particular, right in their own home almost the entire Bazilevich family perished – seven-year-old Emilia, 18-year-old Daria, 21-year-old Yarina and their 43-year-old mother Evgeniya.
Only the girls' father and their mother Evgeniya's husband, Yaroslav, survived.
After the shelling in Lviv today, the lives of 52-year-old Irina Demidova, 54-year-old Alexander Pogoretsky and 55-year-old Yuri Arabsky were also cut short.
The number of victims eventually rose to 64.
It is known that eight of the injured are children.
Medics are fighting for the lives of at least seven seriously injured adults.
12 people were saved.
A total of more than one hundred and fifty rescuers worked at the impact sites in Lviv.
38 units of equipment were involved in the work.
Explosions in Lviv, September 4: video
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