No casualties have been reported so far after a building in Lviv was hit earlier this morning by several missiles, the city’s mayor said in a post on Telegram.
The building has been identified as an airplane maintenance plant. Mayor Andriy Sadovyi said active work on the plant had earlier been stopped.
He added that rescue workers were currently on site.
Lviv is just 80km (50 miles) from the Polish border, well away from the main battle zones in the east and south.
The area had been spared from bombardment, but five days ago there was a similar attack on a military training facility at Yavoriv, 30km (19 miles) from Lviv.
Our BBC correspondent in Lviv, Jonah Fisher, said the area used to be considered a “safe haven”.
He says the shelling is possibly in an attempt by Russian forces to “cut off the supply of weapons into the country”, as major routes tend to run via Poland.
The air raid sirens went off in Lviv at 06:08 (04:08 GMT), with thick smoke billowing from a distance.
Unconfirmed reports say the city’s airport has been hit.
The west of the country has been largely spared of attacks by Russia in this three-week-old war.
Last Sunday, an attack at a military base near the city and close to the Polish border left at least 35 people dead.
Source: BBC
