Drones struck Lviv in western Ukraine early Tuesday, where the mayor reported a campfire and an AFP journalist heard explosions.
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According to the AFP journalist on the scene, several waves of drones could be heard from 01:30 GMT, as well as explosions and the passing of heavy vehicles on the roads during the curfew in force.
“Air defense forces are deployed in our region” and other drones “are flying in our direction,” Lviv Mayor Andriï Sadovyi wrote on Telegram, calling on the population to protect themselves from the “threat of a second attack.”
“Explosions can be heard. “As a result of a strike in Lviv, a fire broke out in an industrial warehouse,” he later added, also on Telegram.
“The threat of Shahed (drones) remains in the Lviv region. “The air defense is working,” the Ukrainian Air Force said via the same channel.
Russia frequently uses Iranian-made Shahed drones to attack cities in Ukraine.