Radiation and hazardous substance levels after Russian missile attack on Lviv remain within normal limits

Maksym Kozytskyi, Head of Lviv Oblast Military Administration, has said that radiation levels and the concentration of harmful substances in the air remain within normal limits following the missile attack on the city of Lviv.

Source: Kozytskyi on Telegram

Quote: "Laboratory tests were conducted at the scene of the missile strike in Lviv. Radiation levels are within normal limits. No exceedance of harmful substances in the air has been detected."

Background:

• On the evening of 8 January, explosions were heard in Lviv after an air-raid warning was issued. It later emerged that a critical infrastructure facility in Lviv Oblast had been hit.
• Colonel Yurii Ihnat, Head of the Communications Department of Ukraine's Air Force Command, in a comment to Ukrainska Pravda said that Russia may have launched a strike on Lviv Oblast from the Kapustin Yar testing range in Russia's Astrakhan Oblast, where, according to early reports, the Oreshnik missile system is based.
• Lviv Mayor Andrii Sadovyi said it is currently unknown whether Russia used an Oreshnik missile in the attack on Lviv Oblast.

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