Ukraine: Russian missile attack kills four people in Lviv

Emergency services have been searching through ruined buildings in efforts to rescue those trapped inside

Four people have been killed and at least 34 were injured after a Russian missile attack in the Western Ukrainian city of Lviv, Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said.

Russia fired cruise missiles at the city damaging around 60 apartments and 50 cars, mayor Andriy Sadovyi said.

Officials have said it is the heaviest attack on civilian areas of Lviv since Russia invaded Ukraine last year.

Emergency crews with dogs have been searching the debris for more people who have been trapped.

The youngest victim was 21 years old and the oldest was 95, according to Maksym Kozytskyi, head of Regional Military Administration.

“This woman survived the Second World War but, unfortunately, she didn’t survive” Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Kozytskyi said.

Mr Sadovyi addressed residents in a video message, saying the attack was the largest on Lviv's civilian infrastructure since the beginning of the full-scale invasion last year.

Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian war refugees have sought safety in Lviv from other areas to the east.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy promised "a response to the enemy. A tangible one.”

Mr Zelenskyy also posted drone footage showing wrecked buildings from above.

The third and fourth floors of the struck building were ruined.

Ukrainian air force updates about the missiles’ course during the night showed they flew to the Kyiv region first, then turned west and flew toward Lviv.

In the early days of the war, Lviv served as a main transit point for millions of refugees from different parts of the country that crossed the border to Europe.

Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians from the east and south remained in the calmer and safer Lviv.

Like the rest of the country, Lviv suffered power outages when Russia fired hundreds missiles over the winter, aiming to destroy Ukraine’s energy system.

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