Seven dead in Lviv in fresh wave of Russian strikes on Ukraine on September 4

Russians killed seven people in Ukraine’s western city of Lviv, according to ВВС News, during a fresh wave of Russian attacks overnight. Three of the killed are children.

Dozens of buildings were damaged in the heart of Lviv

Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyy said Russia had attacked with drones and hypersonic missiles early on September 4. Among those killed were a baby and two girls aged nine and 14 as well as a woman working as a midwife in the city, officials said.

Sadovyy posted on his Facebook a photo of family in Lviv. He wrote that after today’s attack, only the man in this photo survived. Yevhenii’s wife and their three daughters – Yaryna, Daryna, and Emilia – were killed in their own home.

“In the heart of Europe, Russia is annihilating Ukrainians, whole families. Russians are killing our children, our future,” Andriy Sadovyy added.

Explosions were also heard over the capital Kyiv as air defences targeted Russian missiles.

Meanwhile, five people were wounded when a hotel was hit and nearby blocks of damaged in the city of Kryvyy Rih, according to officials.

Dozens of people were also wounded in Lviv and Sadovy reported more than 50 buildings in the heart of the City had been damaged, including homes, schools, and clinics.

The strikes came as Ukraine was still reeling from the deaths of at least 53 people in a major strike on a military institute in the central City of Poltava on September 3, 2024, Russia’s deadliest single bombardment this year. Rescue workers are continuing to search through the rubble of the institute in for survivors of the attack.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy asked Western partners for more air defense systems and missiles to strike deep into Russian territory to prevent missile attacks like the one on Poltava.

“We are telling everyone in the world who has strength, again and again, that to stop this terror, air defense systems and missiles for them are needed in Ukraine, not at a warehouse somewhere. […] Long-range strikes, which can protect from Russian terror, are needed now, not sometime later. Every day of procrastination, unfortunately, means deaths of our people,” the Ukrainian president said.

The United States declines to provide Patriot air defense systems to Ukraine.