A large-scale offensive in the eastern Donbas region of Ukraine has begun, President Zelenskyy has warned.
Security council secretary Oleksiy Danilov said: "This morning, along almost the entire front line of Donetsk, Luhansk and Kharkiv regions, the occupiers attempted to break through our defences.Meanwhile, Ukraine's presidential chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, said on Telegram that "the second phase of the war has started".The regional governor of the eastern Lugansk region, Sergiy Gaiday, also confirmed the much-anticipated attack prior to the president's address.
He said in a Facebook post: "It's hell. The offensive has begun, the one we've been talking about for weeks.Earlier on Monday, missile strikes were said to have killed at least seven people in the western city of Lviv, with 11 also injured in the attack. The city had been largely unscathed from Russian attacks since the conflict began, with the strikes causing the first civilian deaths to be recorded there."Everyone is unsafe," he added.
The move came as a surprise for many, with Lviv being located hundreds of miles from the front line in the east of the country.
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