One-third of 307 companies and 55 individual entrepreneurs engaged in passenger air transportation in Ukraine went bankrupt, ceased operations, or are in the process of shutting down between 2004 and 2023, according to the open data service YouControl.Market (YC.Market).
of smoke was seen rising from the area around the international airport. that s around six kilometres from the city centre. zhanna bezpiatchuk from the bbc ukrainian service is in lviv and filed this report from near to the airport. i m outside the lviv airport. this is the perimeter wall of the airfield. the martial law doesn t allow us to film the premises of the airport or the entrance to it, butjust on the opposite side from here, within one kilometre, there is the aircraft repair plant that was targeted by the russian missiles this morning. the people at the aircraft repair plant were evacuated in advance. it saved their lives. i can give you my personal account. this morning, i was woken up to sirens going off,
from the genocide, is the main inspiring motive of the military operation we started in donbas and in ukraine. joe biden speaks to his chinese counterpart, the first call between the leaders since the start of the conflict. president xi says conflict is in no one s interest , but has yet to condemn russia s actions. the united nations says more than 3 million people have now fled the fighting. 2 million alone have crossed into poland. russia has fired several missiles at lviv international airport in western ukraine. lviv is close to the polish border and has been acting as a safe haven for hundreds of thousands of refugees. earlier on friday, a large plume
and the human tragedy there is real and we re just getting some sense of it. there aren t really any journalists still left inside. there are also strikes happening further out west and this is, again, only 43 miles from the polish border. missile attack believed to hit the lviv international airport and another provocative strike out in the west as russians try to take out some of that airfield. the big push obviously is the continued #-z refugee issue millions of refugees going through polled and going through the main part of ukraine. and millions of women and children are fleeing ukraine and the united nations is now calling this the fastest growing