About 130 rescued from rubble of Mariupol theater, Ukrainian official says

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About 130 rescued from rubble of Mariupol theater, Ukrainian official says

Russian military forces unleashed a new round of strikes in Kyiv and Lviv on Friday, hitting both a residential building and military aircraft repair facility, while continuing to mount aggressive sieges outside major cities in Ukraine during the fourth week of its invasion.

The strike at the repair facility near Lviv wounded one person, said regional governor Maksym Kozytskyy, and was the closest Russian strike to the center of the city just four miles away. The Ukrainian air force's western command said it shot down two of the six missiles fired at the city from from the Black Sea. Lviv, near the Polish border, has largely been spared from the worst of the fighting, but a strike at a training facility last weekend killed nearly three dozen people. A bus repair facility was also targeted Friday, mayor Andriy Sadovyi said.

At the Kyiv residential building in the Podil neighborhood, one person was killed and 19 injured, according to emergency services and mayor Vitali Klitschko.

Meanwhile, around 130 were rescued form the bombed theater in the southeastern city of Mariupol, said Ludmyla Denisova, the Ukrainian parliament’s human rights commissioner. More than 1,300 people remain under the rubble, Denisova told Ukrainian television on Friday. The theater had been used as a bomb shelter before Russia attacked it amid its siege of the port city.

The fighting has led more than 3.27 million people to flee Ukraine, the U.N. estimates. More than 2 million people have gone to Poland, the country's border agency said Friday. The death toll remains unknown, though Ukraine has said thousands of civilians have died.

Among the most condemned attacks of the Russian invasion was last week's airstrike on a maternity hospital in Mariupol that killed three people and left 17 injured.

The World Health Organization says that's just one of 43 confirmed attacks on hospitals and health care facilities by Russian forces since the war began. Those aggressions have killed 12 and injured 34.


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