Russian missiles destroy aircraft repair plant near key humanitarian city of Lviv

An aircraft repair plant near the western Ukraine city of Lviv has been struck by Russian missiles. The city had become a safe haven for people fleeing from the atrocities of the war.

No one was injured in the attack that was just four miles away from the city centre.

The attack took place early on Friday. It is the closest the conflict has come to the key humanitarian supply route and refugee hub that the city of Lviv has become.

Russia’s invasion has been a three-pronged attack from the north, east and south – leaving most of the west far quieter and safer than the rest of the country.

But Friday’s attack and a deadly missile attack on a military training base outside the city on Sunday could be a sign things are about to change for the western side of the country.

“There have been air raid alarms here every morning, but now the strikes are actually landing,” Valentin Vovchenko, 82, told the AFP news agency from Lviv. “We fled Kyiv because of the attacks but now they’ve started to hit here.”

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The military aircraft maintenance facility has been completely destroyed, it was not in operation at the time, and is only a short distance from the Danylo Halytskyi International Airport.

The city’s mayor, Andriy Sadovy, confirmed that the military aircraft maintenance facility had been destroyed by cruise missiles.

“The Russians are going for the infrastructure that is keeping Ukrainian aircraft in the air,” Prof Michael Clarke, the former director of the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) think tank, told the BBC.

Lviv is close to neighbouring Poland – a country that has taken in more than two million Ukrainian refugees who are fleeing the conflict.

The attack was close to the Polish border and could be seen as “an attempt to frighten the West out of helping Ukrainians as much as they have been”.

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