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RUSSIA has staged its biggest strike on the western city of Lviv.
Four people, aged 21 to 95, were killed and dozens more injured when a cruise missile obliterated the top two floors of a four-storey apartment block.
Rescuers were yesterday searching tonnes of rubble for further victims, as Ukraine prepares to mark 500 days of war tomorrow.
Russian forces had launched ten Kalibr cruise missiles from the Black Sea towards the region 500 miles away.
Seven were shot down by Ukraine’s air defence system.
One woman, Olya, 37, cheated death in the strike.
She said: “I woke up from the first explosion. There was a second, the ceiling started to fall, my mother was hit. She and my neighbours died.”
Lviv was at the heart of the refugee crisis at the start of the war but has been spared deadly strikes on civilian targets until now.
President Volodymyr Zelensky vowed a “tangible” response to the attack.
Dmytro Orlov, mayor of Enerhodar – where the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is at risk of disaster after Russia turned it into a military base – said in an exclusive interview with The Sun: “It’s clear they can do anything, including using the biggest nuclear plant in Europe to intimidate the world.
“Russian occupiers are robbing from homes.
“They torture people who have not received Russian passports.
“But Ukrainians will never be beaten.”
Lviv mayor Andriy Sadovyi called it the biggest civilian strike since war began.
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