“We are fighting, including for your independence”, declares the mayor of Lviv on a visit to France

After 1,000 days of war in Ukraine and particularly massive bombings by the Russians in recent days, the mayor of Lviv, Andriy Sadovy, is in France to attend the Congress of French Mayors.

“We are fighting, including for your independence, that’s the world today”declared to Europeans, Tuesday November 19 on franceinfo, Andriy Sadovy. The mayor of Lviv, a large city in western Ukraine, went to the Congress of Mayors of France which is taking place all week, and is launching an appeal as the tone has risen a notch between the belligerents .

After a weekend of massive Russian bombing, the United StatesThe United States has in fact given its authorization to Ukraine for the use of its long-range missiles on Russian soil, and the Kremlin immediately threatened a response “appropriate” who “would make one feel”in the event of a shot by Ukraine.

The mayor of Lviv, a large city of more than 720,000 inhabitants, 70 km from the Polish border and refuge for “150,000 Ukrainians” for almost three years, regrets that this authorization to use American long-range missiles on Russian soil does not come “only now” and not “two years ago.” According to him, we “could have saved thousands of lives of Ukrainian citizens, civilians who are killed by the Russians every day.”

“Thirty thousand residents of Lviv are on the front line fighting”recalls the mayor, who says he welcomes people into his city every day “the wounded from different regions of Ukraine”. Concerning the electrical infrastructures particularly targeted by Russian bombings recently, Andriy Sadovy replies that the population was already preparing for it. “We live at war, constantly fighting for our survival”he testifies, specifying that even his city, although very far to the West, is only “a few minutes of flight of a missile” : “Herehe says, Russia struck several Ukrainian regions, including the Lviv region.” So, if schools and businesses are functioning, “every day we experience air alerts and have to go to shelters”.