Russian attacks kill nine in Ukraine, Lviv warehouses set ablaze - officials


  • World
  • Tuesday, 19 Sep 2023

Firefighters work at a site of an industrial warehouse damaged by a Russian drone strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Lviv, Ukraine September 19, 2023. Press service of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine in Lviv region/Handout via REUTERS

(Reuters) -Nine people were killed in Russian attacks across Ukraine on Tuesday, including a drone strike that set ablaze industrial warehouses and destroyed humanitarian aid supplies in the western city of Lviv, officials said.

Six of the victims were killed by a guided bomb that hit the northeastern town of Kupiansk, regional governor Oleh Synehubov said, describing the attack as a "military crime against the civilian population of the Kharkiv region".

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