Russia has launched an unusual daytime attack on Ukraine, hitting cities across the west of the country with over 400 drones on Tuesday afternoon.
Lviv regional head Maksym Kozytskyi said the Bernardine monastery, a 16th-Century Unesco site, was damaged. A video posted by Lviv authorities shows a fire burning through the roof of a residential building near the monastery.
Three other western cities, Ivano-Frankivsk, Vinnytsia and Ternopil, were also targeted.
The head of the Ivano-Frankivsk region, Svitlana Onyshchuk, said two people were killed. Four, including a six-year-old child, were injured. Various buildings in the city as well as the maternity hospital were damaged.
Andriy Sadovy/TelegramLviv officials posted images of a residential building on fire next to the Bernardine monasteryIn Lviv, Mayor Andriy Sadovyi said 13 people in his city were injured and warned that the number would increase.
The strikes came hours after a heavy overnight attack left at least five people dead.
A 61-year-old woman was killed when a drone hit an electric train in Kharkiv early on Tuesday, authorities said, while other deaths were reported in Zaporizhzhia, Kherson and Poltava.
While four years of war have left virtually no corner of Ukraine untouched, the west of the country has been hit comparatively less intensely and frequently than other areas nearer the Russian border in the east.
Yurii Ihnat, spokesman of the Ukrainian Air Force, said late on Tuesday afternoon that a "large number of drones" had entered Ukrainian airspace from the north of the country, "effectively moving in columns".
"The geography of the strikes during the daytime was broader than at night... It can be said this was one of the largest attacks within a 24-hour period," he said.
