photo: Telegram channel of Maksym Kozytskyi
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In Lviv, rescuers put out a fire in the building of the service station, which occurred yesterday after a missile attack by the Russian military. The Ministry of Internal Affairs showed a video of a large-scale fire.
There was one strike of enemy missiles on the car service station, and three more were inflicted on the military infrastructure (unused warehouses). As of yesterday, State Emergency Service units completely extinguished the fires and dismantled the debris. Both objects were completely destroyed.
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There were about 20 people at the tire fitting. Seven civilians were killed, four of them were workers of the service station. Among those killed was the managing director of tire fitting, a civilian Yurii Kushnir from the town of Novoyavorivsk in the Lviv region. A total of 7 ambulances went to the scene of the explosions.
Tetyana Andreeva, a spokeswoman for the Lviv Regional Center for Emergency Care and Disaster Medicine told Lviv Now that seven ambulances went to the two sites where the explosions took place. They hospitalized the first 8 victims, including a 3-year-old boy, others were taken to another hospital. The child, Artem, and his mother, IDPs from Kharkiv, were staying at the hotel at the time of the attack. Shards from the window cut off part of the boy’s finger. Now the child is in hospital, his condition is assessed by doctors as moderate.
Three victims are in intensive care. Some people were sent for surgery. Doctors say the blast resulted in multiple injuries. In particular, many victims have lesions of the head and brain. The average age of patients is 35-45 years. One victim refused to be hospitalized. Injuries to the head, spine and pelvis were recorded in the victims. The baby has cuts on the left hand. The victim who refused had a head injury.
As the Head of Lviv Military Administration, Maksym Kozytskyi added that the wreckage of Russian missiles that hit Lviv in the morning was found on the territory of an orphanage.
It will be recalled that previously, Lviv was attacked on March 26 when the Russians launched missile strikes on critical infrastructure. In particular, the oil depot in Lviv in a residential area, and the object of the defence structure – the plant – were damaged. The fire at the oil depot was extinguished for more than 13 hours.
Video: State Emergency Service and Tvoe Misto
Photo by Ivan Stanislavskyi and from Maksym Kozytskyi’s Telegram
Translated by Vitalii Holich
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