Ternopil

Olha Karpets, 34, had to leave Kremenets, Ternopil, in western Ukraine, with her children, including wheelchair-using daughter Inna,16, who has cerebral palsy.

From there he caught a flight to Krakow then boarded a bus to Ternopil, where he joined up with the International Legion and underwent a basic training programme lasting about four weeks.

Along with the damage caused in the Ivano-Frankivsk region, energy and infrastructure facilites were damaged in the Lviv and Ternopil regions.

Some 70% of the power of the western Ternopil region was cut, its governor said.

According to the Ukrainian air force, Russian cruise missiles were also detected manoeuvring above the western regions of Lviv, Ternopil and Ivano-Frankivsk.