Multiple Russian cruise missile strikes on infrastructure targets across Ukraine on May 4 included two electrical power substations in Lviv.
The mayor of western Ukraine’s largest city, Andriy Sadovyi, tweeted that a fire is being extinguished at a substation and that one person was wounded based on preliminary information.
“A part of the city doesn’t have electricity,” he said.
Lviv Governor Maksym Kozytskyi said that two of the six projectiles fired at the city were intercepted. Three rockets struck the power stations.
Russian strategic bombers launched a “missile strike from the Caspian [Sea] region,” Ukraine’s Air Force said on social media.
A sub-railway station was also struck in the westernmost region of Zakarpattya. As a result, 57 buildings were left without the supply of natural gas, local authorities said.
In total, six railway stations in central and western Ukraine were struck, inflicting heavy damage, Oleksandr Kamyshin, the CEO of state railway company Ukrzaliznytsia said on his telegram channel. At least 14 trains were delayed as a result.
Approximately 18 missiles were fired at infrastructure targets in the regions of Dnipropetrovsk, Kirovohrad, Lviv, Vinntysia, Kyiv, Zaporizhya, Odesa and Donetsk, the Air Force said.
Eight of the missiles were intercepted, based on preliminary reports.
In his nightly address, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia’s missile strikes were a sign of nervousness due to Ukraine’s military successes on the battlefield.
“Such a scale of today’s shelling clearly does not indicate that Russian has any special military purpose,” Zelensky said. “They [Russians] are trying to get rid of their helplessness. Because they can’t overcome Ukraine.”
At the industrial Andriyivka Coke Plant in the Donetsk region, at least 10 people were killed and 15 wounded due to Russian shelling, according to Pavlo Kyrylenko, head of the regional military administration, as cited by Ukrinform.
