Rockets fall on the Ukrainian border area near Poland

Archive photo of one of the destroyed buildings in the city of Mykolaiv.

Two explosions occurred near Ukraine's western border with Poland - a NATO member state - on Tuesday evening.

The administration of the Lviv region announced that a Russian missile targeted a Ukrainian military facility in the Chervonohrad district.

Regional Governor Maxim Kozytsky wrote on the Telegram platform that there is no information yet about the damage that has occurred.

The Supreme Command of the Ukrainian Air Force reported that the Russian army fired eight missiles at Ukraine from long-range launchers over the Caspian Sea.

It said that seven of those missiles were intercepted, adding that an air defense site was targeted in Lviv.

In the evening, explosions were reported from the city of Mykolaiv in southern Ukraine.

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