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“Many people were from Kharkiv and other places and they were so afraid of rockets already.
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“It was panic,” said Anna Khrystiuk, a volunteer who was handing out information to displaced people, several of whom ran to a shelter in the station when the missiles hit. It stopped briefly and the train’s conductors and other workers tried to reassure anxious passengers as they started hearing about the airstrikes by phone. While the garage burned, a train rumbled by toward Lviv’s nearby railway station, carrying passengers fleeing the fighting in the eastern city of Dnipro. Air raid sirens wailed continuously as firefighters struggled to extinguish the flames and ambulances ferried away the wounded. Gray smoke billowed from what remained of the red roof of a long concrete garage on the city’s western outskirts, a sign outside advertising “carwash” and “tire replacement.” A hole in the roof indicated that the building had taken a direct hit from a missile. Mynjo was killed in fighting in eastern Ukraine. While Ukraine’s east remained the focus of Russia’s recalibrated military ambitions, the strike on Lviv was a lethal reminder that no Ukrainian city, even one scarcely 50 miles from the Polish border, lies outside the range of Moscow’s rockets.Īnna Mynjo, right, weeps at the funeral Monday of her son, Ivan Mynjo, 24, in Lviv in western Ukraine. Putin insisted that “the strategy of an economic blitzkrieg has failed.” But Moscow’s mayor warned that 200,000 people risked losing their jobs in the capital alone, while the head of the central bank warned that the effect of Russia’s isolation was just starting to be felt. The intensified attacks came amid signs that international sanctions were beginning to choke Russia’s economy - and in the process, opening fissures between the country’s leaders. Mariupol, a once-vibrant city in southeast Ukraine, is the last obstacle to Russia’s drive to secure a “land bridge” to Crimea, the southern Ukrainian peninsula seized by Russian forces eight years ago.
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Russian forces also appeared to be finally seizing the entire port of Mariupol, where outnumbered Ukrainian fighters defied demands to lay down their weapons at a vast steel plant that has become a kind of industrial Alamo. The overnight missile barrage targeted fuel depots, warehouses and other infrastructure, according to Russia’s Defense Ministry. David Guttenfelder for The New York Times President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said, “A very significant part of the Russian army is now concentrated for that offensive,” adding, “No matter how many servicemen get thrown there, we will fight, we will defend ourselves.”Īlexandre Bulatov, 49, digging a grave Monday at the civilian section of a cemetery in the Kyiv suburb of Irpin, Ukraine. The secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, Oleksiy Danilov, said on national television that the Russian ground assault, which had been anticipated for weeks, stretched along nearly the entire front line, from the northern Kharkiv region south to the besieged port of Mariupol. The Lviv attack followed 300 missile and artillery strikes that Russia claimed to have carried out, mainly in the east, in what appeared to be a campaign to terrorize the population and intimidate Ukraine’s military before the new ground offensive had begun in the part of the country known as the Donbas. Ronaldo Schemidt/Agence France-Presse - Getty Images A Ukranian serviceman looking into a crater and a destroyed home in the village of Yatskivka, eastern Ukraine, on Saturday.