Russian forces shelled a residential area of the eastern Ukrainian town of Kostiantynivka on Wednesday, killing one person and injuring three, prosecutors said. Kostiantynivka lies north-east of Pokrovsk, the sector seeing the heaviest fighting on the eastern part of the 1,000km (600-mile) frontline.
It came after Russia struck the city of Lviv in western Ukraine on Wednesday, killing seven people, including children. That was a day after a Russian missile attack killed more than 50 people in the central city of Poltava, in one of the deadliest single strikes of the invasion.
In Lviv, Wednesday’s attack killed a woman and her three daughters, leaving their husband and father as the only immediate survivor, Ukrainian officials said. “After today’s attack, only the man in this photo survived. His wife Yevgenia and their three daughters – Yaryna, Daryna and Emilia – were killed in their own home,” said the Lviv mayor, Andriy Sadovy. “I don’t know what words to say to support Yaroslav – the father. Today we are all with you.”
After today’s 🇷🇺 attack, the only person in this photo who survived is the man.
— Андрій Садовий (@AndriySadovyi) September 4, 2024
Mother Yevheniya and her three daughters — Yaryna, Daryna, and Emiliya — were killed.
Standing in the back is Yaryna Bazylevych. She was 21 y.o. Yaryna worked in our office for “Youth Capital 2025” pic.twitter.com/XmSU3FPEbS
