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Lviv dying toll rises to 4

The dying toll in Thursday’s missile strikes on Lviv has risen to 4, the mayor stated, as rescuers proceed to look via the particles of an condo constructing for survivors and casualties, the authorities stated.

9 individuals had been wounded and rescuers continued work on the website, the Inside Ministry stated in a press release. The missile strike destroyed the highest two flooring of two sections of a constructing, it stated.

Regional Governor Maksym Kozytskyi posted a 13-second video displaying a large, curving, four-storey condo constructing with elements of the higher flooring lacking or in rubble.

The death toll in Thursday’s missile strikes on Lviv has risen to four, the mayor said, as rescuers continue to search through the debris of an apartment building for survivors and casualties, the authorities said.

Nine people were wounded and rescuers continued work at the site, the Interior Ministry said in a statement. The missile strike destroyed the top two floors of two sections of a building, it said.

Regional Governor Maksym Kozytskyi posted a 13-second video showing a wide, curving, four-storey apartment building with parts of the upper floors missing or in rubble.

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Slow weapons deliveries to Ukraine delayed Kyiv’s planned counteroffensive, allowing Russia to bolster its defenses in occupied areas including with mines, Zelenskiy said in a TV interview broadcast Wednesday.

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Speaking via a translator in the pre-taped interview in the Ukrainian port city of Odesa days earlier, Zelenskiy said that he had hoped to begin the counteroffensive against Russia “much earlier” than its actual start early June.

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“Our slowed-down counteroffensive is happening due to certain difficulties in the battlefield. Everything is heavily mined there,” Zelensky said.

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“I wanted our counteroffensive happening much earlier, because everyone understood that if the counteroffensive will be unfolding later, then much bigger part of our territory will be mined.”

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Three people were killed after a missile hit an apartment block in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, its mayor said on Thursday.

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A Russian missile made a “direct hit to a residential building” in the city of Lviv, governor Maksym Kozytski said in a video posted to Telegram.

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Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi wrote in a post that the strike had left “three dead already.”

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The missile caused a fire which was extinguished, Kozytski said, adding that emergency services were on the scene and rescuers were “sorting through the debris.”

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Sadovyi earlier said on Telegram that a “series of explosions” had been heard and warned residents to stay in shelters.

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One person was in “serious” condition and had been taken to hospital, he added.

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On 20 June Lviv was hit by a major Russian drone assault on Kyiv and other cities.

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Welcome back to our continuing live coverage of the war in Ukraine with me, Helen Sullivan.

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Our top story this morning: three people were killed in a Russian missile attack that hit an apartment building in Lviv overnight, the mayor of the western Ukrainian city said on Thursday.

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And Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy has said that slow weapons deliveries to delayed Kyiv’s planned counteroffensive, allowing Russia to bolster its defenses in occupied areas including with mines.

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Speaking to CNN’s Erin Burnett in the Ukrainian port city of Odesa days earlier, Zelensky said that he had sought to begin the counteroffensive against Russia “much earlier” than its actual start early June.

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We’ll have more on these stories shortly. Elsewhere meanwhile:

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  • UN observers appealed on Wednesday for greater access to Europe’s largest nuclear plant, after Moscow and Kyiv traded accusations over a possible “catastrophic” act of sabotage at the Russian-controlled facility in Ukraine. The International Atomic Energy Agency on Wednesday said they have yet to observe any indications of mines or explosives but called for additional access to the plant.

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  • A man who detonated explosives in a court house in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on Wednesday has died, Ukrainian interior minister Ihor Klymenko said. Police officers were wounded in the explosion.

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  • US president Joe Biden told Sweden’s prime minister Ulf Kristersson on Wednesday that he is “looking forward” to the country’s stalled Nato membership bid winning final approval, as the western alliance prepares for next week’s summit. Speaking in the Oval Office, Biden said he wanted to reiterate that he “fully, fully supports Sweden’s membership in Nato”. Biden added he was “anxiously looking forward” to the bid being ratified.

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  • James Cleverly, the UK foreign secretary, and Ben Wallace, the British defence secretary, joined with their Polish counterparts Zbigniew Rau and Mariusz Blaszczak at a pre-Nato summit meeting in London on Wednesday. The two countries emphasised their mutual agreement on defence and foreign policy ahead of next week’s Nato meeting.

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  • The UN is making “every effort” to ensure that the Black Sea grain deal and a memorandum of understanding to facilitate access of Russian fertiliser and other products to global markets are extended, UN trade chief Rebeca Grynspan said. “We need both to continue bringing down prices and have stable markets of food and fertilisers in the world,” Grynspan told reporters in Geneva.

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  • Russia’s defence ministry said on Wednesday that Russian forces had struck three Ukrainian army groups near Bakhmut, amid conflicting reports about fighting in the area. The Reuters news agency could not independently verify the battlefield situation. The ministry made no comment in its daily briefing on reports that Russian forces have retreated from the village of Klishchiivka, south-west of Bakhmut, which a Russian-installed official in eastern Ukraine has denied.

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  • Vladimir Rogov, one of the prominent pro-Russian figures in occupied Zaporizhzhia region, has reported on his Telegram account that “the houses of local residents, a garage and a car were damaged” in the region due to Ukrainian fire. He said there were no casualties. The claims have not been independently verified.

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  • Russian president Vladimir Putin’s former election spokesperson has been appointed to run the state news agency Tass, according to a government order published on Wednesday. The Kremlin has tightened its control over the media since the start of the Ukraine war, forcing the closure of leading independent news outlets and designating many journalists and publications as “foreign agents”.

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  • Next week’s Nato summit must offer “real security guarantees” to Ukraine, the Italian prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, said on Wednesday. Speaking in Warsaw alongside the Polish prime minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, Meloni said Italy and Poland were “in perfect agreement” on the issue, Reuters reported.

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  • Russia accused a small US based charity of “sabotaging” the construction of a huge gas pipeline to China and banned it as an “undesirable organisation”. Jennifer Castner, director of the Altai Project, described the accusation as absurd. The move has followed clamp-downs on many foreign NGOs in Russia, including a similar ban last month on the local arm of the WWF environmental group.

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  • Russia said on Wednesday that one person was killed and another 41 injured, including two children, by Ukrainian fire in the east Ukraine town of Makiivka, which is occupied by Russian forces.

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  • Residential buildings and a medical facility were damaged by a Russian rocket attack on Druzhkivka in the Donetsk region overnight.

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  • Russia’s Kursk and Belgorod regions came under fire from Ukrainian forces across the border in the early hours of Wednesday, the regions’ governors said, adding that no casualties were reported.

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The US ambassador to Ukraine, Bridget Brink, has described the in a single day assault on Lviv as “vicious”. In a put up to social media she wrote:

Vicious Russian missile assault on Lviv. Russia’s repeated assaults on civilians are completely horrifying. We is not going to stand by and can proceed to strengthen Ukraine’s means to defend itself.

No less than 4 individuals have been killed and 34 individuals injured. Rescue companies say they recovered seven individuals from beneath the rubble.

Rescue workers operate at a four-storey residential building that was struck by a missile attack on Lviv.
Rescue staff function at a four-storey residential constructing that was struck by a missile assault on Lviv. {Photograph}: World Pictures Ukraine/Getty Pictures

Denis Pushilin, the Russian-installed appearing governor of occupied Donetsk, has claimed that Russian forces have superior 300m within the Vuhledar route. Tass quotes him saying that the advance was made regardless of exercise from Ukraine’s armed forces, and that “that is now in probably the most tough areas” of the entrance.

The claims haven’t been independently verified.

Olena Zelenska has described the assault on Lviv as “one other evening terror from Russia”. In a put up to social media, Ukraine’s first girl stated:

Lviv. One other evening terror from Russia – a whole lot of kilometres from the entrance line. Peaceable individuals died, there are wounded. To those that have doubts about whom it’s preventing Ukraine, the terrorist nation has as soon as once more proven that its objective is that nobody in Ukraine feels protected. My condolences to all these affected by this tragedy.

The state emergency companies of Ukraine has issued some footage from the scene of the missile strike in Lviv the place not less than 4 individuals have been killed and 34 individuals injured.

Medical workers evacuate an injured person on the site.
Medical staff evacuate an injured individual on the location. {Photograph}: Mykola Tys/EPA
Cars were damaged as rubble and debris littered the street.
Vehicles had been broken as rubble and particles littered the road. {Photograph}: Mykola Tys/EPA
Locals react after an apartment block was damaged by a strike in Lviv.
Locals react after an condo block was broken by a strike in Lviv. {Photograph}: Mykola Tys/EPA
Emergency services said that seven people were rescued from the rubble.
Emergency companies stated that seven individuals had been rescued from the rubble. {Photograph}: State Emergency Service Of Ukraine/Reuters

Reuters reviews that the emergency companies in Lviv stated they’d managed to rescue seven individuals from the rubble and evacuated 64 others after a missile strike on the town in a single day.

Tass reviews that the dying toll from the destruction of the Kakhovka dam in Russian-occupied Kherson area has elevated to 53.

Citing emergency companies, Tass reported “The our bodies of three extra lifeless had been discovered, the overall variety of lifeless reached 53. 139 individuals had been hospitalized.”

The claims haven’t been independently verified.

Maksym Kozytskyi, the governor of Lviv, has given an operational replace after the assault on the western Ukrainian metropolis, which has claimed not less than 4 lives. He wrote on the Telegram messaging app:

The enemy attacked our area from the Black Sea with Kalibr missiles. The ‘west’ air command of the air forces of the armed forces of Ukraine destroyed seven missiles over Lviv area.

The dying of 4 individuals was confirmed. They had been all in the home on the time of the taking pictures. Condolences to family. 34 individuals had been injured. About 30 homes and greater than 50 automobiles had been broken.

Kozytskyi stated that falling particles had additionally prompted damages in two separate villages within the area, however with out inflicting any accidents.

He completed his message with an enchantment for the west to produce F16 fighter jets to Ukraine.

The claims haven’t been independently verified.

From Reuters: Each Russian and Ukrainian forces have used cluster munitions which have killed Ukrainian civilians, Human Rights Watch stated in a report on Thursday because the US weighs whether or not to reply the Ukraine authorities’s name to produce it with the weapons.

Human Rights Watch, a world advocacy group, referred to as on each Russia and Ukraine to cease utilizing the weapons, and urged the US to not provide them.

Greater than 120 international locations have signed on to a world treaty banning the weapons, which generally scatter numerous smaller so-called bomblets over a big space that may kill or maim unwary civilians months or years later.

Russia, Ukraine and the US have all to declined to signal the treaty.

A senior Pentagon official stated late final month that cluster munitions could be helpful for Ukraine in pushing again in opposition to Russian forces, however they’d not been accepted for Kyiv but due to congressional restrictions and considerations from allies.

Martin Pengelly

Martin Pengelly

On his current go to to the US, Boris Johnson “reminded” Donald Trump he “really performed an necessary function” in supporting and arming Ukraine in opposition to its Russian invaders, the previous British prime minister stated, including that British help to Kyiv was “enabled” by Trump’s instance.

Johnson made the declare in regards to the notoriously pro-Russian former president – and dismissed point out of Trump’s impeachment for blocking army help to Ukraine – in an interview on One Choice, a podcast hosted by Sir Richard Dearlove, a former chief of the British intelligence service MI6, and the journalist Julia Macfarlane.

Emma Graham-Harrison

Emma Graham-Harrison

Victoria Amelina, an award-winning novelist, essayist and poet, died on 1 July from accidents sustained in a Russian missile assault on a restaurant in japanese Ukraine. Beneficiant, proficient and humorous, Victoria additionally had a unprecedented ethical readability and dedication, underpinned by huge reserves of unshowy braveness.

After the full-scale Russian invasion in February 2022, she skilled as a conflict crimes researcher, which meant travelling to frontlines and bearing witness to excessive violence and struggling.

A Ukrainian homeland, the place all residents had been free, was so necessary to her that she didn’t hesitate to surrender her own residence to struggle for it, taking her son to security exterior Ukraine then returning to comply with the path of Russian destruction.

In her travels and work she tried to counter horror with hope, documenting atrocities but in addition organising help and cultural actions, which she insisted had been as necessary to Ukraine’s struggle as bodily sustenance.

That is an essay she wrote reflecting on her formative years in Lviv and the evolution of her Ukrainian id:

This video has not been verified, nevertheless it seems to indicate the injury completed to the condo blocks by this morning’s Russian missile assault:

What did russian Kalibr missile to the residential home in Lviv. pic.twitter.com/CWtBM5lSzR

— Ukraine Entrance Strains (@EuromaidanPR) July 6, 2023

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“Penalties of the evening assault by Russian terrorists,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote alongside a Telegram video put up displaying a broken constructing.

“There will certainly be a response to the enemy. A tangible one.”

Lviv dying toll rises to 4

The dying toll in Thursday’s missile strikes on Lviv has risen to 4, the mayor stated, as rescuers proceed to look via the particles of an condo constructing for survivors and casualties, the authorities stated.

9 individuals had been wounded and rescuers continued work on the website, the Inside Ministry stated in a press release. The missile strike destroyed the highest two flooring of two sections of a constructing, it stated.

Regional Governor Maksym Kozytskyi posted a 13-second video displaying a large, curving, four-storey condo constructing with elements of the higher flooring lacking or in rubble.

Within the interview with CNN, Zelenskiy additionally stated he had informed US and European leaders forward of the counteroffensive {that a} lack of provides would end in extra casualties.

“I’m grateful to the US because the leaders of our help, however I informed them in addition to European leaders that we wish to begin our counteroffensive earlier, and we’ll want all of the weapons and materials for that.”

“Why? Just because if we begin later, it should go slower, and we could have losses of lives, as a result of every little thing is closely mined – we must undergo all of it.”

Zelenskiy says sluggish weapons supply delayed counteroffensive

Sluggish weapons deliveries to Ukraine delayed Kyiv’s deliberate counteroffensive, permitting Russia to bolster its defenses in occupied areas together with with mines, Zelenskiy stated in a TV interview broadcast Wednesday.

Talking through a translator within the pre-taped interview within the Ukrainian port metropolis of Odesa days earlier, Zelenskiy stated that he had hoped to start the counteroffensive in opposition to Russia “a lot earlier” than its precise begin early June.

“Our slowed-down counteroffensive is occurring because of sure difficulties within the battlefield. All the pieces is closely mined there,” Zelensky stated.

“I needed our counteroffensive taking place a lot earlier, as a result of everybody understood that if the counteroffensive can be unfolding later, then a lot greater a part of our territory can be mined.”

A separate video posted by Lviv governor Maksym Kozytski confirmed a multi-storey constructing with a part of its prime flooring destroyed.

“As of now, the rubble is being dismantled. After all, there can be injured and lifeless.”

“We’re doing every little thing attainable to… save individuals.”

Eight individuals had been wounded within the strike and “about 60 residences” had been broken, Sadovyi stated.

“Home windows received blown out, many automobiles received broken, round 50 automobiles… there could also be extra individuals beneath the rubble,” he stated on Telegram.

Earlier, he warned that “a number of” missiles had been “shifting within the route of the western areas,” citing Ukraine’s Air Forces Command.

Three killed in missile strike on Lviv condo block

Three individuals had been killed after a missile hit an condo block within the western Ukrainian metropolis of Lviv, its mayor stated on Thursday.

A Russian missile made a “direct hit to a residential constructing” within the metropolis of Lviv, governor Maksym Kozytski stated in a video posted to Telegram.

Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi wrote in a put up that the strike had left “three lifeless already.”

The missile prompted a fireplace which was extinguished, Kozytski stated, including that emergency companies had been on the scene and rescuers had been “sorting via the particles.”

Sadovyi earlier stated on Telegram {that a} “collection of explosions” had been heard and warned residents to remain in shelters.

One individual was in “critical” situation and had been taken to hospital, he added.

On 20 June Lviv was hit by a serious Russian drone assault on Kyiv and different cities.

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Welcome again to our persevering with stay protection of the conflict in Ukraine with me, Helen Sullivan.

Our prime story this morning: three individuals had been killed in a Russian missile assault that hit an condo constructing in Lviv in a single day, the mayor of the western Ukrainian metropolis stated on Thursday.

And Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy has stated that sluggish weapons deliveries to delayed Kyiv’s deliberate counteroffensive, permitting Russia to bolster its defenses in occupied areas together with with mines.

Talking to CNN’s Erin Burnett within the Ukrainian port metropolis of Odesa days earlier, Zelensky stated that he had sought to start the counteroffensive in opposition to Russia “a lot earlier” than its precise begin early June.

We’ll have extra on these tales shortly. Elsewhere in the meantime:

  • UN observers appealed on Wednesday for higher entry to Europe’s largest nuclear plant, after Moscow and Kyiv traded accusations over a attainable “catastrophic” act of sabotage on the Russian-controlled facility in Ukraine. The Worldwide Atomic Power Company on Wednesday stated they’ve but to watch any indications of mines or explosives however referred to as for extra entry to the plant.

  • A person who detonated explosives in a court docket home within the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on Wednesday has died, Ukrainian inside minister Ihor Klymenko stated. Cops had been wounded within the explosion.

  • US president Joe Biden informed Sweden’s prime minister Ulf Kristersson on Wednesday that he’s “trying ahead” to the nation’s stalled Nato membership bid successful remaining approval, because the western alliance prepares for subsequent week’s summit. Talking within the Oval Workplace, Biden stated he needed to reiterate that he “absolutely, absolutely helps Sweden’s membership in Nato”. Biden added he was “anxiously trying ahead” to the bid being ratified.

  • James Cleverly, the UK overseas secretary, and Ben Wallace, the British defence secretary, joined with their Polish counterparts Zbigniew Rau and Mariusz Blaszczak at a pre-Nato summit assembly in London on Wednesday. The 2 international locations emphasised their mutual settlement on defence and overseas coverage forward of subsequent week’s Nato assembly.

  • The UN is making “each effort” to make sure that the Black Sea grain deal and a memorandum of understanding to facilitate entry of Russian fertiliser and different merchandise to world markets are prolonged, UN commerce chief Rebeca Grynspan stated. “We’d like each to proceed bringing down costs and have steady markets of meals and fertilisers on this planet,” Grynspan informed reporters in Geneva.

  • Russia’s defence ministry stated on Wednesday that Russian forces had struck three Ukrainian military teams close to Bakhmut, amid conflicting reviews about preventing within the space. The Reuters information company couldn’t independently confirm the battlefield state of affairs. The ministry made no remark in its each day briefing on reviews that Russian forces have retreated from the village of Klishchiivka, south-west of Bakhmut, which a Russian-installed official in japanese Ukraine has denied.

  • Vladimir Rogov, one of many distinguished pro-Russian figures in occupied Zaporizhzhia area, has reported on his Telegram account that “the homes of native residents, a storage and a automotive had been broken” within the area because of Ukrainian hearth. He stated there have been no casualties. The claims haven’t been independently verified.

  • Russian president Vladimir Putin’s former election spokesperson has been appointed to run the state information company Tass, in keeping with a authorities order revealed on Wednesday. The Kremlin has tightened its management over the media because the begin of the Ukraine conflict, forcing the closure of main unbiased information retailers and designating many journalists and publications as “overseas brokers”.

  • Subsequent week’s Nato summit should supply “actual safety ensures” to Ukraine, the Italian prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, stated on Wednesday. Talking in Warsaw alongside the Polish prime minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, Meloni stated Italy and Poland had been “in excellent settlement” on the problem, Reuters reported.

  • Russia accused a small US based mostly charity of “sabotaging” the development of an enormous gasoline pipeline to China and banned it as an “undesirable organisation”. Jennifer Castner, director of the Altai Venture, described the accusation as absurd. The transfer has adopted clamp-downs on many overseas NGOs in Russia, together with an identical ban final month on the native arm of the WWF environmental group.

  • Russia stated on Wednesday that one individual was killed and one other 41 injured, together with two youngsters, by Ukrainian hearth within the east Ukraine city of Makiivka, which is occupied by Russian forces.

  • Residential buildings and a medical facility had been broken by a Russian rocket assault on Druzhkivka within the Donetsk area in a single day.

  • Russia’s Kursk and Belgorod areas got here beneath hearth from Ukrainian forces throughout the border within the early hours of Wednesday, the areas’ governors stated, including that no casualties had been reported.

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