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Lviv

American  
[lveev] / lviv /
  1. a city in western Ukraine: formerly in Poland.


Lviv British  
/ lvif /

noun

  1. the Ukrainian name for Lvov

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Lviv regional head Maksym Kozytskyi said the Bernardine monastery, a 16th-Century Unesco site, was damaged.

From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026

Residents of Rudno, on the outskirts of Lviv and near the aviation plant, told AFP last Friday that they heard explosions at night, and some reported gas outages.

From Barron's • Jan. 12, 2026

Those fears haven't disappeared, even in Lviv, which like other parts of western Ukraine has, comparatively, been spared the worst of Russia's attacks.

From BBC • Jan. 9, 2026

In the western city of Lviv, the Ukrainian Air Force said a ballistic missile traveling at hypersonic speed struck "infrastructure facilities" just before midnight.

From Barron's • Jan. 9, 2026

“Everything happened extremely fast,” Lviv Mayor Andrii Sadovyi said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026