"In
the morning, a 49-year-old police sergeant was killed by Russian
artillery fire in Kherson," Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko
said.
In Lviv, fire fighters tackled a blaze after three industrial
warehouses were hit in an attack at around 5 a.m. (0200 GMT),
emergency services said.
Photos released by the State Emergency Service of Ukraine showed
huge flames lighting up the sky above the burning warehouses.
Lviv mayor Andriy Sadovyi said the body of a man who worked at
one of the warehouses had been found under the rubble.
Sadovyi said the warehouses stored windows, household chemicals,
and humanitarian aid.
"I want to emphasise that these are ordinary industrial
warehouses. Nothing military was stored there," regional govenor
Maxim Kozitsky said on the Telegram messaging app.
He said Russian forces had launched 18 drones in the attack and
that 15 had been shot down, including seven that were directly
over the Lviv region.
Ukraine's air force said Russia had launched a total of 30
drones and one Iskander ballistic missile in attacks on Ukraine
overnight, and that 27 of the drones had been shot down.
Reuters could not independently verify the reports. There was no
immediate comment from Moscow, which has carried out frequent
air strikes on Ukraine since Russia's full-scale invasion in
February 2022.
Russia has repeatedly attacked infrastructure critical to
Ukraine's defence, energy system and agriculture but many
civilians have also been killed. At least seven people were
killed in July when a Russian missile slammed into a residential
building in Lviv, which is far from front lines.
Moscow has denied deliberately targeting civilians or civilian
infrastructure.
(Reporting by Lidia Kelly in Melbourne; additional reporting by
Anna Pruchnicka; Editing by Christopher Cushing, Michael Perry
and Timothy Heritage)
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