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Again, we are told it's not anywhere near where that -- those -- that blast went off just a couple weeks ago when they hit that -- that airplane repair facility. >> that was don lemon. let's bring in cnn military analyst colonel cedric leighton. he is in washington. so, this isn't the first strike on the western city of lviv, where we are reporting from. we had one against the military training facility, against an aircraft repair hangar near the airport. now, these fuel storage tanks, and also we understand from the mayor a location was hit south of the city that appears also to have been som...

Some sort of hanger that aircraft repair hanger. so this is very deep into western ukraine now. >> yes, indeed. most of the war as you know has been confined to the east of the country. with the occasional attack further west. i think this is two purposes to it. the first is obviously to target the aircraft repair facility. which will be a strategy target. for what i presume russian cruise missiles. it's closer to the poland border, it also sends a message to nato. and the west. just to be careful not to get involved too much. and interfere with what russia is doing in ukraine. >> right. they ...

At lviv here in the very west of ukraine, the largest major city to the polish border, was the place that had been relatively calm so far. if you had seen lviv on the news, if you had been following the story of the city, it would be as a refuge, a century, a place where people could come to from other parts of this country to get some safety and take a moment to decide whether to leave the country, perhaps go to poland, or whether to stay in what they were considered to be a safer part of ukraine. yesterday afternoon, exactly 24 hours or so ago, we had these assignments that went off and then...

This is part of a specific targeted campaign and tactic by the russians because in the last couple of days, a number of fuel depots in different locations across the country have been knocked out by their cruise missiles, often launched from new ye naval vessels we believe in the black sea. earlier on saturday, they announced that they'd hit another one near mykolaiv. now, here in far western ukraine in the city of lviv, phil black, cnn. now with us from los angeles is robert english, the director of central european studies at the university of southern california. thanks for being with us....

When it looked like. fuel, to the south of where i am right now. that second strike was used as a repair facility, a maintenance facility for other types of ukrainian military infrastructure. here in lviv, people remain defiant, people remain out on the streets. and i think what people are asking today is, what's next? there's still critical infrastructure, you're looking again at the left-hand side of your screen, a picture from yesterday of that tv tower. the tv tower that remains behind me right now. there are other pieces of critical infrastructure. i think people here are worried about, p...