Lviv braces for more attacks as it repairs the damage from Russian airstrikes on power stations.

Workers were restoring electricity in Lviv, a day after Russian missiles struck power stations, as residents in the relatively safe western Ukrainian city braced for the prospect of more attacks.

The strikes on electrical substations that are part of the railway system knocked out power in 85,000 homes on Tuesday night, and workers labored through the night to extinguish fires and repair damage. By Wednesday, about 600 homes were still without electricity.

Maksym Kozytskyy, the military administrator for the Lviv region, said the Russian attack was the most devastating yet on the railway system in the city, which is 40 miles from the Polish border. Russian forces “understand that it’s an international supply route for us and they want to damage it,” he said.

Ukrainian air defenses had intercepted two of the six missiles fired from the Caspian Sea in western and central Ukraine, he said. Read more

@nytimes