Russian missiles damage civilian infrastructure in Ukraine

Russian missile strikes hit several cities in central and western Ukraine in the early morning hours Tuesday, damaging civilian infrastructure, wounding dozens of Ukrainians and killing several others.

The city of Lviv in western Ukraine was bombarded by missiles and one rocket fell into a kindergarten, according to Mayor Andriy Sadovyi.

Sadovyi said on Telegram there were no casualties but four people were injured and there was “a lot of damage” to infrastructure.

“More than a hundred apartments were damaged, more than 500 windows were broken, and a kindergarten was destroyed,” the mayor said.

Oleksiy Kuleba, the deputy head of Ukraine’s presidential office, said other strikes in the wider Lviv region damaged homes and vehicles, wounding 10 people. It’s unclear how severe the injuries are.

“Attempts by the Russians every day and every night to sow panic and terror by shelling our peaceful communities are only confirmation of the inhuman nature of the occupiers,” Kuleba wrote on Telegram.

Another Russian missile strike in Lutsk, a city in northwestern Ukraine, damaged a Swedish bearings plant and killed three employees, according to several reports from Ukrainian officials.

A sports complex and business was also struck in the city of Dnipro in central Ukraine, injuring at least two people, while water access was out after strikes in the central city of Smila.

Other strikes were reported at villages in the southern Zaporizhzhia region and the city of Kramatorsk in the eastern Donetsk region.

Ukrainian presidential office adviser Mykhailo Podolyak said the latest Russian cruise and ballistic missile strike was “solely for the sake of killing and psychological pressure.”

“This is an undeniable manifestation of the [Russia’s] terrorist activity, legally documented by numerous destructions and victims,” he wrote on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.