At least one person was killed and 25 others were injured after detonation of explosive devices in Ukraine’s western Lviv city on Sunday.
Officials said a patrol officer was killed and 25 people were injured in a “terrorist attack”, adding that the suspected perpetrator was detained. "It has been preliminarily established that homemade explosive device detonated," the police said on the Telegram messaging service.
Police reported that the first blast happened shortly after a patrol unit reached the site of a suspected shop burglary, with a second explosion following soon afterward.
Andriy Sadovyi, the mayor of Lviv, described the incident as a terrorist attack.
It was also reported on Sunday that Russia launched dozens of strike drones along with ballistic and cruise missiles at Ukraine overnight, targeting energy infrastructure, according to Ukrainian military and local authorities. President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed that “an individual suspected of carrying out the terrorist attack” had been detained. Mayor Sadovyi later identified the suspect as a Ukrainian woman.
Police subsequently stated that the 33-year-old suspect had assembled and planted the explosives under the “instructions” of an operative from Russia’s special services. The victim was identified as Viktoria Shpylka.
“She was just 23 years old and had started her service at the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the Kherson region,” police wrote on Telegram Sunday morning.
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