At least five people were injured when missiles struck the city of Lviv on Saturday. At the same time, US President Joe Biden was visiting Poland, near the border with Lviv.
27.3. 12: 06 • Updated March 27 12:36
At least five people have been injured after several missiles struck the city of Lviv in Ukraine on Saturday night.
The missiles hit, among other things, the fuel depot and the Defense Forces, says the governor of the Lviv region Maksim Kozytskyi. In addition, the school building is said to have been hit by the attack.
According to the governor, the missiles that struck Lviv had been fired from Sevastopol on the Crimean peninsula. The Crimean region is under Russian control.
Russia’s defense ministry said on Sunday that Russia used cruise missiles and ballistic missiles in the attacks.
Lviv is located in the western part of Ukraine, near the Polish border. On Friday, Russia said it would next focus on Donbass in an area just across the country.
The mayor of Lviv Andrei Sadovin the attacks on the city were a message to U.S. President Joe Biden, who was on a visit to Poland on Saturday.
– The attackers wanted to greet President Biden with the attacks. Lviv is only 70 kilometers from the Polish border and I think the world should understand that the threat is really serious, Sadov said. According to the BBC (switching to another service).
In his speech in Warsaw, Biden sharply praised the Russian president Vladimir Putinia, whom he blames for the war. At the end of his speech, Biden said, “For God’s sake, this man is not allowed to stay in power,” meaning Putin.
After the speech, the White House clarified that Biden meant that Putin would not be allowed to hold power in Russia’s neighboring countries or regionally. He did not mean that the Russian administration should change, the White House reported.