Russian missiles hit aircraft facility in Western Ukraine

Russian missiles hit an aircraft repair facility in western Ukraine on Friday, striking a long-range target far from the battlefield while attacks continued on other cities. The Ukrainian Air Force said six cruise missiles were fired from the Black Sea. Two were intercepted, preventing them from reaching the target near the airport in the western city of Lviv. A building was destroyed, according to Lviv’s mayor, Andriy Sadovyi, who said work at the facility had been suspended prior to the strike. One person was wounded, and rescue workers were on site putting out fire, said Maksym Kozytskyi, the head of the Lviv regional military administration. The attack near Lviv comes less than a week after a Russian airstrike on a Ukrainian military training center in a western area about 10 miles from the Polish border. Lviv is about 50 miles from the border. Polish immigration authorities said Friday that the number of people who have fled Ukraine for Poland has now surpassed two million.

Most of the fighting between the invading Russian forces and Ukrainian troops has been concentrated further east and south. In the eastern city of Kramatorsk, at least one missile hit a residential building overnight, killing two people and wounding 16, said Pavlo Kyrlyenko, head of the regional military administration in the eastern region of Donetsk. The thud of artillery exchanges and small-arms fire was audible in the outskirts of the capital city of Kyiv overnight. A Russian rocket, reportedly shot down by Ukrainian air defense forces, landed in a downtown neighborhood, injuring a half dozen people who were cut by flying glass. Standing by the crater next to scorched apartment blocks, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said one person had been killed and four children were among the wounded. “These are the results of this awful situation,” he said. In Mariupol, rescue efforts continued at the site of a destroyed theater where hundreds of Ukrainian civilians had sought shelter as Russian forces bombard the southern port city. Mr. Kyrylenko said there were survivors, but declined to comment on the number, or the death toll.