7 killed in fresh wave of strikes on Ukraine

3 children among dead in Lviv; Kyiv urges allies to allow use of long-range weapons

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An overnight Russian drone and missile attack on Ukraine's western city of Lviv, close to the border with Nato member Poland, killed seven people, including three children, local officials said on Sept 4.

The strikes, which also damaged historic buildings in the heart of the city, came a day after the war's deadliest single attack in 2024, when Russia hit a military institute with two ballistic missiles, killing 50 and wounding hundreds more.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said allies could help stop the "terror" by providing more air defences and repeated calls for partners to allow the use of longrange Western weapons deeper into Russian territory.

"Everyone who persuades partners to give Ukraine more longrange capability to respond to terror fairly is working to prevent exactly these kinds of Russian terrorist strikes on Ukrainian cities," Mr Zelensky said.