On Tuesday, the 19th of September, nine people were killed in Russian attacks in Ukraine. A drone strike set fire to industrial warehouses and destroyed humanitarian supplies in Lviv, and a guided bomb killed six victims in the north-eastern city of Kupiansk, citing officials, reports Reuters.
Oleh Synehubov, the regional governor, described the attack on the town of Kupiansk as
“a military crime against the civilian population of the Kharkiv region”.
Drone strikes in Lviv, far from the front line, caused major fires in three industrial warehouses and killed one person, whose body was found under the rubble. Two persons, including a police officer, were killed in the southern city of Kherson, local officials reported.
The civilian death toll is rising sharply, although Russia denies any deliberate targeting of civilians.
The UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Ukraine, Denise Brown, revealed that a warehouse in Lviv used by the NGO Caritas-Spes had been destroyed. She noted that the facility had been used to store around
300 tonnes of relief goods and had now been burned to ashes.
Today as a result of a night attack by Russian troops, the humanitarian aid warehouse of Caritas-Spes Ukraine in #Lviv was destroyed. The employees haven`t got injured, the warehouse and everything in it burned to the ground. 300 tons of humanitarian supplies were burned. pic.twitter.com/hZEyPmUbdB
— Caritas-Spes Ukraine (@SpesUkraine) September 19, 2023
The Governor of the Lviv region, Maksym Kozytsky, reported that Russian forces had launched 18 drones in an attack on the region, 15 of which were successfully intercepted, including seven directly over Lviv.
The Ukrainian air force said that Russia launched a total of 30 drones and one Iskander ballistic missile in overnight attacks against Ukraine, 27 of which were intercepted and neutralised.
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