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Seven residents of Lviv were killed as a result of a Russian missile and drone strike on the city on Wednesday morning, three of them children, Mayor Andriy Sadovy said.

"There are seven casualties in Lviv," he wrote on Telegram.

"Three of the seven dead were children," Sadovy added later.

Earlier, head of the Lviv Regional Military Administration, Maksym Kozytsky, reported five dead and 38 injured.

According to him, the occupiers launched a combined drone and missile strike on Lviv in the morning – two missile hits were recorded in the city. More than 50 houses, two schools and two medical institutions were damaged.