One injured after Russian missiles strike Ukraine’s Lviv airport 

Air raid sirens sounded across Lviv around 6 a.m. local time, as a cloud of smoke billowed out from the direction of Lviv Danylo Halytskyi International Airport.

One person has been injured after Russian missiles targeted Lviv airport, in western Ukraine, in the early hours of Friday morning.

Air raid sirens sounded across the city around 6 a.m. local time as a cloud of smoke billowed out from the direction of Lviv Danylo Halytskyi International Airport.

A senior official in Lviv’s military later confirmed four missiles had struck an aircraft repair facility at the airport, while two other missiles had been struck down by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Maxim Kozitsky, head of Lviv Oblast’s military administration, said the rockets came from the direction of the Black Sea. The two that were intercepted were shot down near Lviv, he said.

One person was injured and had been taken to hospital in a moderate condition, he confirmed.

When asked if the injured person was a civilian or military, Kozitsky said: “There is no military infrastructure operating in the Lviv Oblast.”

Lviv mayor Andriy Sadovyi said, in a statement, that “active work at the facility was stopped in advance,” which is why there were no deaths. He did not elaborate as to when or why the work was stopped.