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A rare daytime drone attack in Ukraine resulted in at least three fatalities, 30 injuries, and a fire at a historic building in the central area of Lviv on Tuesday, according to officials. This follows an overnight barrage that claimed five lives nationwide. Over 400 drones were fired at Ukraine during midday—a significant shift from Russia’s typical approach of nighttime strikes in the ongoing four-year conflict.
Footage circulating online shows a drone crashing into an old structure beside a church in Lviv’s historic district, about 37 miles from the Polish border.
In Ivano-Frankivsk, in western Ukraine, two people died and four were wounded. The local mayor, Ruslan Martsinkiv, stated that windows at a maternity hospital were shattered but no one was hurt there. Meanwhile, Vinnytsia’s governor, Natalia Zabolotna, reported one fatality and 11 injuries in her region. Lviv’s mayor, Andriy Sadovyi, confirmed that a residential building was struck by a second drone, and debris from a third fell onto a street.
Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko called out the attack on X, saying, “Russia is attacking a crowded city center in broad daylight.” The regional governor of Lviv, Maksym Kozytskyi, added that part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site, around 17th-century St. Andrew’s Church, sustained damage.
Air defenses responded to drone threats near Kyiv throughout the day. Ukraine’s air force issued alerts about sightings in over a dozen locations nationwide. In Vinnytsia and Ternopil, both hundreds of kilometers from the front lines, residents were advised to stay in shelters amid reports of explosions.
Earlier, a wave of nighttime strikes killed five people and disrupted power supplies in Moldova. Ukraine reported that Russia launched 34 missiles and 392 drones overnight, shooting down 25 missiles and 365 drones. Near Poltava, in the east, two people lost their lives and 12 others, including a 5-year-old child, were wounded. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy emphasized the widespread damage across 11 regions and urged allies to send more air defense equipment. He warned that the U.S., Ukraine’s primary supplier, is likely to face missile shortages amid its focus on the US-Israel conflict with Iran.
Moldova’s Foreign Minister, Mihai Popsoi, announced that the critical Isaccea-Vulcanesti power line connecting Moldova to Europe was affected, with President Maia Sandu criticizing Russia’s role in the instability.
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