Within 7 hours.. Russia launches more than 400 drones against Ukraine
Mounted RussiaTuesday, one of its largest daytime attacks on Ukraine, used "More than 400 drones"This came after a night that witnessed intense air strikes, according to a spokesman for Ukrainian Air Force Yuri Ignat told AFP.
In Lviv, a major city in western Ukraine hundreds of kilometers from the front lines, drones targeted the historic city center, which is included on the UNESCO World Heritage List, authorities said.
Ignat told AFP. "They have launched more than 400 drones" Between nine in the morning and four in the afternoon, local time.
He added "On this scale, this is practically unprecedented. I do not remember that we witnessed daytime raids with such a large number of drones" Since the start of the war four years ago.
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Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sepiga, on the X platform, condemned the attack. And he said "Throughout the day, Russia terrorized several cities across Ukraine with swarms of witness drones: Lviv, Ternopil, Vinnitsa, Ivano-Frankivsk, Zhytomir, Zaporizhya, Dnipro and others."
Andrei Sadovy, mayor of Lviv, located near the border with Poland, a member country of the European Union and NATO, reported that at least 13 people were injured in the attack.
Head of the Regional Military Administration in Lviv, Maksym Kozitsky, reported that a historical complex dating back to the seventeenth century located in the center of the city was damaged.
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