Russia trying to cause terror but Lviv will stay safe, says American in Ukraine

Joel Wasserman said he felt ‘powerless’ to calm his girlfriend down when she was in Kyiv the day Russia invaded (Joel Wasserman)

An American living in Lviv has said that while recent missile strikes on the outskirts of the city are “trying to cause terror”, Russia does “not have the strength or ammunition” to depopulate western Ukraine.

Joel Wasserman, 30, has lived in Ukraine for four years, and moved to the western city of Lviv at the end of January when he began to worry about military action in Kyiv.