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On 24 March 2024, a passenger at Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport (SVO/UUEE) claimed she had a bomb in her bag, leading to the delay of a flight to Yerevan in Armenia, reported Inkerman. Also on 24 March 2024, the London shopping centre in the Nevsky district of St. Petersburg was evacuated over a bomb threat. • During the early morning hours around 0500 hours local time, Russia launched missiles at various locations in Ukraine, especially in Kyiv and Lviv. • In Lviv, near the Polish border, around 20 missiles and 7 Shahed-type drones had been launched, with explosions recorded in Stryi,...

Update from Ukraine | Ruzzia tried to counterattack but lost again | Awesome day for Ukraine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOEuRcX6xzE The summary of the situation of Russian re-invasion to Ukraine covering the last 48 hours, as of 6th July 2023 – 22:00 (Kyiv time). https://militaryland.net/news/invasion-day-498-summary/ *** Great interactive map with viewer controlled Map magnification tool to use for each Front! https://militaryland.net/maps/

LVIV, Ukraine: Ukraine’s IT sector is booming despite the Russian invasion. Workers with stickers on their laptops recline on beach chairs outside a warehouse for startups in the west Ukraine city of Lviv giving off major Silicon Valley vibes. But the atmosphere inside is different. Through the glass doors of the complex, young Ukrainians zig-zag between stacks of bulletproof vests and cardboard boxes filled with helmets ready for the front. They are part of Ukraine’s burgeoning tech sector which was forced to adapt after Russia’s invasion and has become key to supporting the war effort. “Most tech companies had...

LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — Explosions reported near Ukraine’s western city of Lviv as President Joe Biden wraps up visit to neighboring Poland.

Russian missiles hit area near airport in Ukraine's Lviv, mayor says Russian missiles struck an area near the airport of Ukraine's western city of Lviv on Friday, its mayor Andriy Sadovy said, though he added that the airport itself had not been attacked. Authorities are assessing the situation and will issue updates, he said. Earlier, television station Ukraine 24 said at least three exposions had been heard in the city.

An Associated Press correction last week and reactions to it show that the question of whether the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany were allies at the dawn of World War II remains a hot-button issue for many Russians and eastern Europeans. The correction was issued to an article about a Holocaust commemoration in the Ukrainian city of Lviv that originally called the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany “former allies.” The AP concluded that the pact reached on Aug. 23, 1939 by the German and Soviet foreign ministers Joachim von Ribbentrop and Vyacheslav Molotov didn’t constitute a formal alliance, thus the...

The 435-year-old Golden Rose Synagogue in Lviv, Ukraine, was ruined by the Nazis in 1943 and remains in its destroyed state as a testament to the dangers of anti-Semitism. Some, however, seem to have missed the significance of the lesson. A restaurant called Pid Zolotoju Rozoju ("At the Golden Rose") now lies next to the synagogue and markets itself using the same anti-Semitic caricatures that the Nazis championed, JTA reports. At first glance, the non-kosher restaurant seems elegantly decorated with Yiddish posters and Judaica, while a television shows pictures of the city's thriving Jewish community prior to the arrival of...

Two policemen were wounded in explosions at two district police stations in the west Ukrainian city of Lviv on Tuesday, the Interior Ministry said, linking the cases to a deadly standoff between a far-right group and police over the weekend. In a statement, the ministry said the entrances to the stations had been booby-trapped with explosives and the safety clip of a grenade was found at one of the sites. "The Interior Ministry connects these explosions with events in the Carpathian region (in western Ukraine), organized with the aim of destabilizing the situation in the country," it said. On Saturday,...

Ukraine's western region of Lviv has reportedly declared independence from the central government.Hours after protesters seized the prosecutor's office in central Lviv and forced a surrender by interior ministry police, the executive committee of the region council - also called the People's Rada – claimed control over the region. Reuters A portrait of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich burns near the destroyed building of the security service in Lviv "The regime has begun active military action against people. Dozens of people have been killed in Kiev and hundreds have been wounded. Fulfilling the will of society, the executive committee of the...

A Church of martyrs confronts the cultural iron curtain.L’viv, Ukraine — It was almost a decade ago when I last visited Ukraine, and the surface changes over that period are immediately evident. Then, my flight from Poland was met by a Soviet-era school bus, sans engine, towed by a Soviet-era tractor: a bizarre jury-rigged hybrid that carted my companions and me to a one-hour wait in a Soviet-era “VIP lounge” at the Soviet-era L’viv International Airport, while the visas we had spent the better part of a day acquiring in a classic Soviet-era bureaucratic muddle were validated. On July 3,...

A Jewish professor on the faculty of the university in Lviv, Ukraine, whose last name is Freifeld, was murdered by three Arab students, Arutz Sheva has learned. According to initial details, the three students had failed in their studies and sought revenge for their dismissal from the university. They decided to murder their Jewish professor. These details have not been confirmed by other sources. Freifeld's brother, Dr. Vadim Freifeld, who teaches at Ben Gurion University, received the news Friday and got on a plane to Ukraine. He informed his colleagues of the murder before boarding the flight. .....

‘S-HERTOGENBOSCH, Netherlands (Reuters) - When Christianity fades, it doesn't just leave empty pews behind. With each church that shuts, the statues, crucifixes, chalices, paintings or vestments that were part of regular Sunday services suddenly have no liturgical home.In the Netherlands, where faith has faded more dramatically than in many other parts of Europe, two churches close down on average every week. The sacred art left over is piling up in cellars and storerooms around the country.Some congregations elsewhere have the opposite problem. New Catholic and Protestant churches are springing up in Latin America, Africa and Asia, and pastors in eastern...

A City That Time Forgot By Alastair Gill Staff Writer It is 6:30 in the morning and my train, which has been laboring westwards all night from Kiev, Ukraine, is approaching the suburbs of Lviv, just 70 kilometers from the Polish border. I peer sleepily through the rain-streaked windows: wooded hills, cobbled streets, backyards and filthy, half-ruined baroque facades are running by. It could almost be Transylvania — which of course is not so very far from here. Soon the train is sliding into a cavernous hall and I disembark to face a damp Carpathian morning. Lviv (population 800,000) lies...

Europa: Ukrainian city wants to reclaim its past Richard Bernstein International Herald Tribune THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2005 LVIV, Ukraine Beautiful but poor is a common shorthand description of this city of 800,000 people in western Ukraine, and it takes only a few hours here to sense the accuracy of the phrase. Lviv, which was once as European as the Austro-Hungarian Empire and wishes to be part of Europe again, is not in Europe, at least not as defined by the border of the European Union, though it is a mere 70 kilometers from here. This is the periphery. Here is...

Church move to Kiev fuels rivalry Ukraine's Eastern-rite Catholics have moved the headquarters of their church to the capital, Kiev, amid protests by some 300 mainly Orthodox believers. The head of the Greek Catholic Church, Cardinal Lubomyr Husar, held a Mass for some 1,000 believers to mark the move from the western city of Lviv. Eastern-rite Catholics follow Orthodox ritual but bear allegiance to the Pope. The move could strain ties between the Vatican and Russia's Orthodox Church, which has huge influence in Ukraine. The head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Alexy II, had earlier described it as an...

Lviv Municipal Council Decides To Open Memorial To Polish And Ukrainian Soldiers On June 24 Monday, June 13 2005 The Lviv municipal council has set June 24 as the date for opening a memorial to soldiers of the Ukrainian Halychyna Army and Polish soldiers buried at Lviv's Lychakivske cemetery during the 1918-1920 period. Out of the Lviv municipal council's 90 deputies, 66 voted in favor of this decision. The Lviv municipal council invited President Viktor Yuschenko and Poland's President Aleksander Kwasniewski to attend the opening ceremony. The Lviv municipal council also amended its decision No. 770 of September 2000 to...

Chances to resolve dispute over historic Polish cemetery in Lviv 2005-04-12, 10:45 Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko promised to resolve the controversy over the restoration of a Polish cemetery in Lviv. Called the Young Eagles Cemetery, it is a place where Polish youths who defended the then Polish city against Ukrainians in 1918, are buried. For Poles, the cemetery is a symbol of patriotic commitment, while Ukrainians see it as a symbol of oppression. The Lviv city authorities have not agreed to restore the cemetery to its original shape as the Polish side would like to do.

NPR.org, April 2, 2005 · "Tip O'Neill was correct," says Father Tom Reese, editor in chief of America, the Catholic weekly magazine. "All politics is local... even in the Catholic Church." Reese suggests that instead of focusing on the possible papal candidates as a bookie would look at horses in the starting gate, try to think about the election from the point of view of the electors, the cardinals who cast the votes. "Each cardinal is thinking, how will this candidate go over in my diocese?" Reese says. "If you're from the Third World, you're concerned with people who are...

GOTTA SEE THIS - FIRES AROUND THE WORLD 7/29/02 - Izmit Turkey Gas Explosion, Surrender in France, Su-27 in Lviv, Packsadle Grove, Sheldon Ridge, more =Izmit, Turkey == In Izmit, Turkey, an explosion at the gas storage facility 7/28/02. ==Martigues, France == In Martigues, France, a fireman surrenders. ==Lviv, Ukraine== In Lviv, Ukraine, the Su-27 fighter plane just before 78 souls perished and >115 were hurt. ==Sofia, Bulgaria == In Sofia, Bulgaria, a man burns by the Presidential building , lit by his wife. They have been forced to wander homeless. Where has the EU and UN been? ==Giant Sequoia...

A TV frame shows spectators looking on as a SU-27 fighter plane crashes while performing maneuvers at an airshow near the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, July 27, 2002. The Ukrainian fighter jet hurtled to the ground and cartwheeled into a ball of flame during an airshow at Lviv on Saturday, killing around 40 and injuring dozens of spectators, officials said. REUTERS TELEVISION