Zelensky calls for long-range capabilities after air attack kills three children
The Ukrainian President has said his country should be able to "respond to terror fairly" after a Russian air attack killed several people, including three children.
Volodymyr Zelensky called on his country's partners to provide Ukraine with more long-range capabilities.
The strike on Lviv, not far from the border with Nato member Poland, also damaged historic buildings in the city.
The attack on Lviv came a day after Russia's deadly strike in Poltava, which saw a military institute hit by two ballistic missiles, killing 50 and wounding hundreds more.
The Ukrainian military said the whole country had been placed under an air alert.
Mr Zelensky said Ukraine's allies could help stop the attacks by providing more air defences, and repeated his calls for the use of long-range Western weapons deeper into Russian territory.
"Everyone who persuades partners to give Ukraine more long-range capability to respond to terror fairly is working to prevent exactly these kinds of Russian terrorist strikes on Ukrainian cities," he said.
Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi told national television that more than 70 structures, including schools, homes and clinics, had been damaged in the attack from Moscow.
On Monday, the Ukrainian President called on his country's allies to allow Ukraine to fire Western-supplied missiles deeper into enemy territory to reduce the military threat posed by Russia.
He was speaking after Russian missiles injured at least 47 people in the north-eastern city of Kharkiv in response to Kyiv having launched one of the biggest drone strikes against it since the full-scale war began.
Russia is continuing to press its offensive in eastern Ukraine while trying to remove Ukrainian forces that broke through its western border in a surprise incursion in August.
Last week, Russia hit Ukraine with its heaviest airstrikes of the war, hitting targets including energy facilities.
In June, Washington partially lifted its ban on Ukraine firing US weapons across the border into Russia, but America is still not supplying Kyiv with its longest-range missiles.
Their policy is that the long-range weapons that they provide to Ukraine are for use inside Ukraine's sovereign territory only.
The US relented on allowing Ukraine to launch cross-border strikes, but only in the Kharkiv area and only shorter-range mobile rocket artillery like Himars.
For US President Joe Biden, sending Ukraine a US-provided long-range Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS), which could hit targets 300km inside Russia, still crosses a line.
US close to agreement
The current US policy is that the long-range weapons that it provides to Ukraine are for use inside Ukraine's sovereign territory.
But Washington is believed to be close to reaching an agreement to give Ukraine long-range cruise missiles that could reach deep into Russia.
However, US officials said Kyiv would still need to wait several months while they worked through technical issues ahead of any shipment.
Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missiles (JASSM) may be included in a weapons package which is expected to be announced this autumn, though a final decision has not been made.
Officials believe that sending the JASSMs to Ukraine could alter the strategic landscape of the conflict by putting more of Russia in range of powerful, precision-guided munitions.
Air defence missiles and counter-drone equipment were included in the last significant US package of military assistance for Ukraine.
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