The seven reached the killed by a Russian missile strike which was launched yesterday Thursday at Lviv, in western Ukraine, and hit a four-story apartment building.

The roof and upper floor of the building have been destroyed in “the worst attack on Lviv’s civilian infrastructure since the beginning of the war,” said Andrii Sandovii, mayor of the city far from the front line and 70 kilometers from Poland. .

He himself preached two days of mourning in honor of the victims.

“We will surely give an answer to the enemy. “Strong (response),” Ukrainian President Zelensky said on Telegram yesterday.

District governor Maksim Kozytsky said two bodies were pulled from the rubble of the building late last night. Among the dead are a 32-year-old woman and her 60-year-old mother. Besides, the emergency response service announced that the injured reached 36, while seven people were rescued alive from the ruins.

Ukraine’s air force said Russia attacked Lviv with Kalibr missiles, which were launched from the Black Sea, adding that seven of the ten were shot down.

Moscow claims not to target civilians. The Russian Ministry of Defense announced that it launched strikes on Ukrainian bases and warehouses of imported armored vehicles with “high-precision weapons” during the night of Wednesday to Thursday.

In Lviv about 700,000 people lived before the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Since then the city’s population has grown as many Ukrainians have taken refuge there from other regions of the country, mainly in the south and east.

Sandovii stated that they suffered from the Russian attack 35 houses were damagedan office building, a student residence, a school and 50 vehicles.

For his part, Zelensky’s chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, asked Ukraine’s allies for more defense systems and appealed for the country’s accession to NATO.