She launched Russia Tuesday saw one of its biggest daytime attacks on UkraineUsing "more than 400 drones," following a night of intense airstrikes, according to a spokesman Ukrainian Air Force Yuri Ignat for AFP.
In Lviv, a major city in western Ukraine hundreds of kilometers from the front lines, drones targeted the historic city center, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, authorities said.
“They launched more than 400 drones” between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. local time, Ignat told AFP.
He added, “On this scale, this is practically unprecedented. I don’t recall us having seen daytime raids with this many drones” since the war began four years ago.
In Lviv, a major city in western Ukraine hundreds of kilometers from the front lines, drones targeted the historic city center, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, authorities said.
“They launched more than 400 drones” between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. local time, Ignat told AFP.
He added, “On this scale, this is practically unprecedented. I don’t recall us having seen daytime raids with this many drones” since the war began four years ago.
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Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha condemned the attack via the X platform. He said, “Throughout the day, Russia terrorized numerous cities across Ukraine with swarms of Witness drones: Lviv, Ternopil, Vinnytsia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Zhytomyr, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipro, and others.”
Andriy Sadovyi, the mayor of Lviv, which lies near the border with Poland, a member of the European Union and NATO, reported that at least 13 people were injured in the attack.
Maksym Kozytskyi, head of the Lviv Regional Military Administration, reported that a 17th-century historical complex in the city center was damaged.
