Suspected spy detained at site of Lviv rocket attacks

By AP 27 March 2022, 2:05 am

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Dark smoke and flames rise from a fire following an air strike in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, on March 26, 2022. (Ronaldo Chemidt and Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP)

The governor of Ukraine’s Lviv region says a man has been detained on suspicion of espionage at the site of one of the two rocket attacks that rattled the city today.

Maksym Kozytskyy says police found the man had recorded a rocket flying toward the target and striking it. Police also found on his telephone photos of checkpoints in the region, which Kozytskyy says had been sent to two Russian telephone numbers.

Rockets hit an oil storage facility and an unspecified industrial facility, wounding at least five people. A thick plume of smoke and towering flames could be seen on Lviv’s outskirts hours after the attacks.