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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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A video posted by Lviv authorities shows a fire burning through the roof of a residential building near the monastery.

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

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

The new missile appeared to have a greater range and speed than other weapons Russia had used in war until that point, and, like the missile targeting Lviv, wasn’t fitted with nuclear warheads.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

Her first memories of Christmas are as a child in the town of Lviv where she would have to mend her own shoes and go house to house singing Christmas carols to earn small change.

From BBC • Dec. 6, 2025