The Times of Israel is liveblogging Wednesday’s events as they unfold.
LVIV, Ukraine — Air raid sirens sound over the western Ukraine city of Lviv at around 10:15 a.m.
By 10:30 all was quiet again and residents were out in the streets walking their dogs.
There are no immediate reports of strikes in the city.
KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky claims almost 6,000 Russian soldiers have been killed since Russia’s full-scale invasion began last Thursday.
Russia has not released overall casualty numbers and the figure could not be independently verified.
MOSCOW — Russia’s Defense Ministry claims Russian aviation disabled the main TV tower in Ukraine’s capital in an airstrike yesterday, but says the attack did not hit any residential buildings.
Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov does not address deaths from the strike or damage to the adjacent Babi Yar memorial to Kyiv’s Holocaust victims. He said the attack was aimed at disabling Ukraine’s ability to stage “information attacks.”
Ukraine’s State Service for Emergency Situations says the strikes on the TV tower killed five people and left five wounded. Ukrainian television stations briefly went down after the strike but were later restored.
The Foreign Ministry says it is organizing transportation for Israelis and their families from the Ukrainian city of Lviv to the Polish border at 1 p.m. today.
“Representatives from the Foreign Ministry will be at the border...
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