Lviv

Russia Begins Bombing Ukraine’s Far-Western City of Lviv

Russian missiles struck an airport near Lviv on Friday – the far-western Ukrainian city where hundreds of thousands of refugees from the Russian invasion have sought shelter, and hundreds of foreign journalists are based. Lviv is less than 50 miles from the Polish border.

A pedestrian looks at a cloud of smoke rising after an explosion in Lviv, Western Ukraine,

PICS: Cities Across Ukraine Rocked by Missile Strikes, Shelling

LVIV, Ukraine (AP) – Russian forces pressed their assault on Ukrainian cities Friday, with new missile strikes and shelling on the capital Kyiv and the outskirts of the western city of Lviv, as world leaders pushed for an investigation of the Kremlin’s repeated attacks on civilian targets, including schools, hospitals and residential areas.

Ukrainian firefighters extinguish a blaze at a warehouse after a bombing in Kyiv, Ukraine,

Ukrainian City Honors Jews on Holocaust Anniversary

LVIV, Ukraine — The Ukrainian city of Lviv, once a major center of Jewish life in Eastern Europe, is commemorating the 75th anniversary of the annihilation of the city’s Jewish population by Nazi Germany and honoring those working today to remember and preserve what they can of that vanished world.

Men react during a visit to the Babi Yar menorah monument in Kiev on September 23, 2016. U