The early morning barrage of missiles on the outskirts of Lviv were the closest strike yet to the center of the city, which has become a crossroads for people fleeing from other parts of Ukraine and for others entering to deliver aid or fight.
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Black smoke billowed for hours after the explosions, which hit a facility for repairing military aircraft near the city's international airport, only six kilometers (four miles) from the center. One person was wounded, the regional governor, Maksym Kozytskyy, said.
Multiple blasts hit in quick succession around 6 a.m., shaking nearby buildings, witnesses said. The missiles were launched from the Black Sea, but the Ukrainian air force's western command said it had shot down two of six missile in the volley. A bus repair facility was also damaged, Lviv's mayor Andriy Sadovyi said.
Early morning barrages also hit a residential building on the northern edges of Kyiv, killing at least one person, according to emergency services, who said 98 people were evacuated from the building. Two others were killed when strikes hit residential and administrative buildings in the eastern city of Kramatorsk, according to the regional governor, Pavlo Kyrylenko, and Ukraine's State Service of Special Communications and Information Protection.
In Europe, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said Friday that Poland would formally submit a proposal for a peacekeeping mission in Ukraine at the next NATO summit.
Poland's ruling party leader, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, announced the idea of a peacekeeping mission during a trip to the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on Tuesday.
Also on Friday, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz called for a ceasefire in Ukraine during a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin, a German government spokesperson said.
In their nearly hour-long conversation, Scholz also stressed that the humanitarian situation needed to be improved and progress needed to be made in finding a diplomatic solution as soon as possible, said the spokesperson.
Meanwhile, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Friday that Russia has lost all illusions about relying on the West and Moscow will never accept a view of the world dominated by a United States that wants to act like a global sheriff.
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