Russia targets Ukraine's Lviv with cruise missiles, Zelensky demands further arms

Russian forces have struck military targets in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv with high-precision cruise missiles, with former Soviet state's president demanding Western nations give more arms and asking if they are afraid of Moscow. 

The Russian defense ministry said Sunday the military hit a fuel depot being used by Ukrainian troops near Lviv with long-range missiles and used cruise missiles to strike a plant in the city being used to repair anti-aircraft systems, radar stations and sights for tanks.

Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov accompanied a video of the missile strikes in Lviv, located 60 kilometers from the border with NATO-member Poland.

The defense ministry also said Russia used sea-based long-range missiles to destroy an arsenal of S-300 missiles and BUK anti-aircraft missile systems and a number of drones near the Ukrainian capital of Kiev.

Ukraine’s Interior Ministry adviser Vadym Denysenko confirmed the attack on Lviv, saying Russia had started destroying Ukrainian fuel and food storage depots and that the government would have to disperse the stocks of both in the near future.

Officials in Lviv said an unspecified number of people had been wounded in the missile attacks.

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