{"id":1388674,"date":"2022-03-18T13:58:54","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T17:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1388674"},"modified":"2022-03-18T15:16:32","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T19:16:32","slug":"russia-begins-bombing-ukraines-far-western-city-of-lviv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russia-begins-bombing-ukraines-far-western-city-of-lviv\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Begins Bombing Ukraine\u2019s Far-Western City of Lviv"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frussia-begins-bombing-ukraines-far-western-city-of-lviv%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1388674&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\"><span>Russian missiles struck an airport near Lviv on Friday \u2013 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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Until now, Lviv has been one of the major Ukrainian cities least affected by the Russian attack. It has become a hub for Ukrainian refugees heading for Poland, with a \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/morning-joe\/watch\/-humanitarian-village-in-lviv-offers-services-to-refugees-in-need-135483973827\"><span>humanitarian village<\/span><\/a><span>\u201d sprouting on its outskirts.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>Mayor Andriy Sadovy told the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/d40e0091-a972-4bf9-863d-800debb0a1f3\"><i><span>Financial Times<\/span><\/i><\/a> <span>on Friday that his city is at \u201cthe limits of our capacity\u201d for refugees, with \u201call available infrastructure\u201d stressed to the limit, so he had to raise \u201cthe red flag.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIf we don\u2019t get substantial support in the next week there will be difficult times ahead,\u201d Sadovy warned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Sadovy described Lviv as the \u201csoul\u201d of Ukraine, pointing to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/whc.unesco.org\/en\/list\/865\/\"><span>UNESCO World Heritage Site<\/span><\/a><span> in the center of the city, with historic buildings dating back to the fifth century.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cDuring the first and second world wars, Lviv wasn\u2019t bombarded. But you saw what the Taliban did to Afghanistan\u2019s architectural monuments. Will Putin follow that path? I just don\u2019t know,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The U.N. World Food Program (WFP) <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/russian-sanctions-over-ukraine-grow-biden-talk-xi-2022-03-18\/\"><span>warned<\/span><\/a><span> on Friday that Ukraine\u2019s food supply chain is \u201cfalling apart,\u201d as the movement of goods has \u201cslowed down due to insecurity and the reluctance of drivers.\u201d WFP further cautioned that it obtains almost half of its wheat, for humanitarian aid missions around the world, from Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Lviv\u2019s International Media Center, established a few days before the Russian invasion began with help from the Ukrainian national government, has <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.infobae.com\/en\/2022\/03\/17\/more-than-800-foreign-journalists-are-working-on-information-about-the-war-in-ukraine-5\/\"><span>played host<\/span><\/a><span> to over 800 journalists from 50 different countries.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rsf.org\/en\/news\/rsf-launch-lviv-press-freedom-center\"><span>Reporters Without Borders<\/span><\/a><span> (widely known by its French acronym RSF) created a Press Freedom Center in Lviv on March 4, \u201clocated within the premises\u201d of the existing International Media Center. In addition to providing Internet access and media resources for journalists, the RSF project distributes protective gear and provides \u201cshelter in the event of an attack.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The first attack came on Friday, as Russian missiles <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbbjtv.com\/2022\/03\/18\/russian-strikes-hit-ukrainian-capital-and-outskirts-of-lviv\/\"><span>struck<\/span><\/a><span> on the outskirts of Lviv, as well as the Ukrainian national capital of Kyiv.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>CBS News described clouds of black smoke rising into the clear sky over Lviv on Friday morning after a Russian strike \u201chit what was said to be a facility for the repair of military aircraft.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Mayor Sadovy said at least one person was injured in the attack. The casualty count was low because the plant was not in operation at the time of the missile strike.<\/span><\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p><span>The Ukrainian air force <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.themoscowtimes.com\/2022\/03\/18\/russian-missiles-destroy-aircraft-repair-plant-in-ukraines-lviv-mayor-a76985\"><span>said<\/span><\/a><span> the Russian strike involved six \u201ccruise missiles,\u201d probably <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/ukraine-war-cruise-missiles-used-to-destroy-building-near-airport-in-lviv-military-says-12569001\"><span>launched<\/span><\/a><span> from Russian heavy strategic bombers over the Black Sea. It said two of the missiles were destroyed in flight. A similar cruise missile attack struck the Yavoriv military base west of Lviv last weekend, killing 35.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian missiles struck an airport near Lviv on Friday \u2013 the far-western Ukrainian city where hundreds of thousands of refugees from the Russian invasion have sought shelter, and hundreds of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1388674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1388674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1388674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1388674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1388674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1388674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}