Andriy Sadovyi said there were no more “safe” or “unsafe” areas in Ukraine. “What we are seeing today is genocide. “It is a deliberate act of the attacker to kill peaceful civilians,” he said, adding: “All our towns and villages are in the same situation.” Russia carried out a series of deadly long-range airstrikes early Monday against military targets, it claimed. The attacks came amid expectations of a major offensive by Moscow in the coming days in the eastern and industrial area of Donbass. Sadovyi said one of the rockets hit a garage and a tire repair shop in Lviv, killing four people. Others were injured, including a child, while two adults were seriously injured. Nearby windows were blown up at a school, he said. Volodymyr Zelenskiy: Russia wants to “destroy” the Donbas region of Ukraine – video Maksym Kozytskyy, head of Lviv’s regional military administration, said the strikes were part of a “cynical and inhumane” plan by the Russian government and army. They were trying to intimidate Ukraine by chasing civilians, the mayor said, adding: “Look at what is happening in Mariupol. Thousands of innocent people were killed. “What we have seen in Bucha and Hostomel is horrible.” Russian opposition politician Ivan Zhdanov said the bombing of Lviv had no military significance. He said the Kalibr rocket, which was launched from thousands of kilometers, cost $ 6.5 million (5 5 million) and landed in a tire workshop. “What is the logic here? Are they completely stupid? ” wrote on Twitter. I do not understand. Explain to you please. The cost of a “caliber” is $ 6.5 million. They throw it a thousand miles away to make a tire fit in Lviv? What is the logic here? Are they completely stupid? pic.twitter.com/mKDCOGpcFx – Ivan Zhdanov (@ioannZH) April 18, 2022 Russia has in the past bombed more reasonable targets in and around Lviv, including a tank repair plant and a military base. The city on the Unesco list, famous for its baroque and neoclassical architecture, has largely survived the Syrian-style devastation suffered by Mariupol, Kharkiv and the cities on the front line of Donbas. Lviv is a temporary home for hundreds of thousands of people displaced by fighting in other parts of Ukraine. It is also a logistics hub for Western arms deliveries shipped through Poland. “We are using all possible means to supply weapons to our army,” Kozytskyy said. Map The Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement that the rockets fired from the air had destroyed Ukrainian ammunition depots. He said he had targeted areas across the country, including the cities of Kharkiv and Zaporizhia, as well as the Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk regions and the southern port of Mykolaiv. Sadovyi, once a presidential candidate, said Vladimir Putin was determined to subjugate the whole of Ukraine. “We must drive the enemy out of our land,” he said. “They want to enslave us. “We will fight to the last drop of blood because we are Ukrainians.” He said the West needed to understand that the war in Ukraine was beyond the fate of a country and was between totalitarian and democratic systems. “We are defending everyone. Germany, Poland, Lithuania. “We accept the blow, but the same rocket could fly to a different country tomorrow.” He continued: “We must be a fist. “We have to hit the enemy so hard that he can not be aggressive for the next 50 years.”
