Russia-Ukraine war latest news: Lviv under attack from Russian missiles; Nato chief warns on chemical weapons – live
More on the situation unfolding this morning from Guardian reporter Lorenzo Tondo who brings us the latest developments from Lviv. Large columns of smoke were seen rising from the direction of the a military base in Yavoriv about 50km north-west of Lviv. Preliminary data indicates that Russians have fired eight missiles around 6am.
Lviv, a magnificent UNESCO world heritage site, 50 miles from the border with Poland and a safe haven for hundreds of thousands of internally displaced Ukrainians, was so far untouched by the bombings. But its 700,000 residents knew that, at some point, the time would also come for them.
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