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News from Ukraine.

Tensions are rising in Ukraine ahead of Russia's Victory Day in World War II.

Our reporter is out in the Lviv region of Ukraine.



Correspondent Jang Seon-i, Russia's Victory Day is tomorrow (the 9th), how is the atmosphere there?



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Yes, here in Lviv, the air raid alerts sounded yesterday at 1:00 PM and 2:00 AM and just before.



The Russian military is continuing missile attacks in southern Odessa and other places.



The Russian military is firing missiles at infrastructure such as railways and fuel storage facilities in Ukraine, as is Lviv.



The place you see now is an oil storage area that was hit by a missile attack by the Russian military on March 27th.



The Russians attacked Lviv with a cruise missile on the day of US President Joe Biden's visit to Poland, setting fire to a fuel storage facility.



All of Ukraine is experiencing a fuel shortage as Russia focuses its attacks on fuel supply facilities.



Many gas stations here in Lviv have closed, with long queues lining up for those that are still operating.



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I heard that there are many refugees in Lviv, but I have personally met a child who was injured during the war.



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Many of the refugees who came to Lviv were injured in the Russian invasion.



There are many injured children. I went to a children's hospital in Lviv.



The exact number was not disclosed for security reasons, but the children's hospital in Lviv has many children injured in the war.



These are children and adolescents who were directly attacked by Russian forces or injured during evacuation.



The process of escaping 15-year-old Lisa's hometown of Donetsk was arduous.



Russian forces attacked Lisa's vehicle and shot him four times in the leg.



His knee and bones were broken and he lost some toes, but luckily he saved his life.



[Lisa/Donetsk refugees: 20 minutes after the Russians started shooting, the Ukrainian army helped me to survive.] The



Ukrainian government said that more than 220 children had been killed by the Russians since the start of the war.



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The Russian attack continues, but the Ukrainian army has sunk another Russian ship.



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] Ukrainian military drones have sunk another Russian ship in the Black Sea, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry said.



A video released by the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense showed a Ukrainian drone attacking a Russian Serna-class amphibious assault craft with a capacity of up to 92 people near the Black Sea island of Zmini.



The Ukrainian military continues to counterattack on land.



The American think tank War Research Institute predicted that "soon, Ukrainian forces will push the Russians out of the range of artillery even in the second city of Kharkiv."



Jill Biden, wife of U.S. President Joe Biden on a tour of Eastern Europe, visited Romania yesterday.



She said that Biden visited U.S. bases to encourage her soldiers, and then met Ukrainian women and children who were evacuating in Bucharest, and shared the pain with them.



(Video coverage: Jae-Young Lee, Edit: Seung-Yeol Lee)