{"id":76564,"date":"2022-03-18T10:53:24","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T10:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=76564"},"modified":"2022-03-18T10:53:24","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T10:53:24","slug":"russian-missiles-destroy-aircraft-repair-plant-in-ukraines-lviv-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.bornomalanews.com\/?p=76564","title":{"rendered":"Russian missiles destroy aircraft repair plant in Ukraine’s Lviv: mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"News Desk:<\/strong> Russian forces on Friday destroyed an aircraft repair plant in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv but no one was hurt, the mayor said.<\/p>\n

A thick pall of grey smoke streamed across the clear blue sky over Lviv's airport on Friday morning, an AFP reporter saw, and ambulances raced to the scene.<\/p>\n

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“Several missiles hit an aircraft repair plant,” Mayor Andriy Sadovyi said on the messaging app Telegram, adding the plant had been destroyed.<\/p>\n

“There are no casualties,” he said, adding that operations at the plant had been halted.<\/p>\n

He earlier wrote that Russian forces had struck an area close to Lviv's airport.<\/p>\n

Armed checkpoints turned motorists back from roads leading to the airport, and a local man told AFP he had heard a blast earlier Friday.<\/p>\n

Ukraine's air force, referring to the strike and citing preliminary information, said that six “cruise missiles had been launched, probably X-555, from the Black Sea.”<\/p>\n

Two missiles had been destroyed, the statement added.<\/p>\n

Lviv is the largest city in western Ukraine and a popular tourist destination known for its picturesque views.<\/p>\n

Last weekend Russian cruise missiles devastated a military base west of Lviv, killing 35 people and wounding more than 130.<\/p>\n

Located 70 kilometres (45 miles) from the border with EU member Poland, the city had largely been spared since Russian forces invaded on February 24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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