Russia confirms attacks in Lviv, but targeted missile warehouse in Kiev

The Russian military confirmed on Sunday (27) attacks on fuel depots in the Ukrainian city of Lviv and outside Kiev on Saturday (26). They claimed they were targeting fuel supplies for Ukrainian troops and confirmed that they carried out the attack.

But separately, the Russian defense spokesman further claimed that the weapons were launched from the sea and targeted a Ukrainian missile storage facility 30 kilometers southwest of Kiev.

“On March 26, high-precision, long-range launched weapons destroyed a large fuel base near the city of Lviv, which was supplying fuel to Ukrainian troops in the western regions of Ukraine, as well as near Kiev,” the spokesman said. voice of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Igor Konashenkov.

Konashenkov confirmed the separate attack in Lviv on Saturday, saying cruise missiles had targeted the workshops of the Lviv radio repair factory, which he claimed had carried out the overhaul and modernization of Ukrainian weapons systems. Ukraine’s State Emergency Service said on Sunday that the fire that hit the fuel depot in Lviv was extinguished at 6:49 am today local time.

Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi said in a Twitter post on Sunday that it took firefighters 14 hours to put out the fire.

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John Berman, from CNN, saw smoke rising from behind a hill near Lviv after a series of three explosions. “We don’t see any attacks in the city itself, but smoke rising from the horizon behind that hill after three big explosions,” Berman told viewers, before moving a little closer to the scene and reporting what was taking place.

The Lviv region is in western Ukraine, close to the Polish border. The fire caused a column of very intense smoke.