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Posted on February 22, 2026
1 min readLast updated: April 3, 2026
Add as preferred source on GoogleHomemade explosive devices detonated around midnight in Lviv, killing one police officer and injuring 24. Blasts followed police arrival at a reported break-in; the mayor called it a terrorist act.
KYIV, Feb 22 (Reuters) - One police officer was killed and 24 other people were wounded after several explosive devices detonated at midnight in Lviv, in western Ukraine, the National Police said on Sunday.
"It has been preliminarily established that homemade explosive devices detonated," the police said on the Telegram messaging service.
The police said that the first explosion occurred after a patrol crew arrived at the suspected scene of a shop break-in, while the second explosion occurred a little later.
The mayor of Lviv, Andriy Sadovyi, called the incident a terrorist act.
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on X that police had detained a suspect, but did not provide further details.
(Reporting by Pavel Polityuk; Editing by Thomas Derpinghaus and Alex Richardson)
Explosions in Lviv, Ukraine, that killed a police officer and injured 24 people after officers responded to a reported break-in. Authorities say the devices were homemade and are investigating.
Shortly after midnight on February 22, 2026, in Lviv, a major city in western Ukraine near the Polish border.
Lviv’s mayor called it a terrorist act. The National Police reported multiple blasts and opened an investigation into the attack.
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