Night attack on Lviv region: falling debris caused a large-scale fire
6 September 2024 10:23
A fire broke out near the Lviv community as a result of the fall of the wreckage of a Russian drone: warehouses near the village of Malekhiv are burning. This was reported by Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi on Telegram, "Komersant Ukrainian" reports
Sadovyi added that this time everything is calm on the territory of the Lviv community.
He added that there is no information about the victims yet.
The head of the Lviv regional administration, Maksym Kozytskyi, added that the fire started in an industrial area.
According to the head of the regional administration, four trucks burned down.
“In total, during the two air alerts that were announced in Lviv region last night, the enemy attacked our region with three drone strikes. All of them were neutralised by our air defence.
There were no casualties, Kozitsky added.
The State Emergency Service showed the consequences of the Russian attack on Lviv region and reported that the wreckage of a UAV fell in the village of Murovane, Lviv district. Cars were on fire.
On the night of 6 September, Russians attacked Ukraine with one X-59 guided missile and one X-31P anti-aircraft missile, launched from the airspace of Luhansk and Bryansk regions. In addition, the enemy launched 44 Shahed attack UAVs, according to the Ukrainian Air Force Command.
“Aviation, anti-aircraft missile troops, electronic warfare units and mobile fire groups of the Air Force and the Defence Forces of Ukraine were involved in repelling the enemy air attack. As of 8:00 a.m., 27 attack UAVs were shot down as a result of the air battle. Eight drones were lost on the territory of Ukraine (probably fell under the influence of electronic warfare), and one UAV turned back in the direction of the occupied Donetsk region. Several other air targets (probably attack drones) are observed in the airspace in the north,” the Air Force said.
It is also reported that air defences were operating in Kyiv, Kirovohrad, Vinnytsia, Dnipro, Mykolaiv, Kherson, Poltava, Chernihiv, Kharkiv, Lviv, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Sumy regions.
