Russian combined strikes on Lviv on Thursday night destroyed one of the warehouses with medical aid intended for hundreds of civilian medical facilities, which was collected and transferred to Ukraine by the American charity organization Nova Ukraine.
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has announced in absentia charges against five members of the Russian command who directed the missile strike on Lviv carried in the early hours of September 4, 2024.
Lviv authorities have released details of the project to build the European-gauge rail line Sknyliv–Mostyska, for which Ukraine has received €73.7 million in EU grant funding.
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of Slovenia Tanja Fajon, who is on a working visit to the Lviv region, paid tribute to Ukrainian and Slovenian soldiers.
Police officers released video footage from Lviv region showing the immediate aftermath of the combined Russian attack. The video captures patrol officers helping residents escape from destroyed homes.
Medics from the National Police's Joint Assault Brigade “Liut” carried out Ukraine's first evacuation of a seriously wounded soldier from Donetsk Oblast to Lviv in just 20 hours.
Former Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Andrii Parubii, who was killed in an armed attack on August 30, will be buried at the Lychakiv Cemetery in Lviv on September 2.
In Lviv, a joint Ukrainian-Polish expedition is completing search and exhumation works during which a mass grave containing the remains of about 40 victims of the Second World War was discovered.
The 12 Ukrainian defenders buried in Lviv on July 25 were held captive by the enemy and died while being transported for exchange in an Ilyushin Il-76 aircraft.