lviv russian president vladimir putin appeared at a huge flagwaving rally in moscow and praised his countrys troops friday as they pressed their lethal attacks on ukrainian cities with shelling and missiles moscow police said more than 200000 people were in and around the luzhniki stadium for the rally and concert marking the eighth anniversary of russias annexation of the crimean peninsula seized from ukraine the event included wellknown singer oleg gazmanov singing made in the ussr with the opening lines ukraine and crimea belarus and moldova its all my country as putin prepared to take the stage speakers praised him as fighting nazism in ukraine a claim flatly rejected by leaders across the globe meanwhile russian forces continued to pound the ukrainian capital kyiv and launched a barrage of missiles on the outskirts of the western city of lviv the early morning attack on lvivs edge was the closest strike yet to the center of the city which has become a crossroads for people fleeing from other parts of ukraine and for others entering to deliver aid or fight in city after city around ukraine hospitals schools and buildings where people sought safety have been attacked rescue workers searched for survivors in the ruins of a theater that served as a shelter when it was blasted by a russian airstrike wednesday in the besieged southern city of mariupol ludmyla denisova ukrainain parliaments human rights commissioner said at least 130 people had survived the theater bombing but according to our data there are still more than 1300 people in these basements in this bomb shelter denisova told ukrainian television we pray that they will all be alive but so far there is no information about them at lviv black smoke billowed for hours after the explosions which hit a facility for repairing military aircraft near the citys international airport 6 kilometers 4 miles from the center one person was wounded the regional governor maksym kozytskyy said multiple blasts hit in quick succession around 6 am shaking nearby buildings witnesses said the missiles were launched from the black sea but the ukrainian air forces western command said it had shot down two of six missile in the volley a bus repair facility was also damaged lviv mayor andriy sadovyi said lviv lies not far from the polish border and well behind the front lines but the area has not been spared russias attacks in the worst nearly three dozen people were killed last weekend in a strike on a training facility near the city lvivs population has swelled by some 200000 as people from elsewhere in ukraine have sought shelter there early morning barrages also hit a residential building in the podil neighborhood of kyiv killing at least one person according to emergency services who said 98 people were evacuated from the building kyiv mayor vitali klitschko said 19 were wounded in the shelling two others were killed when strikes hit residential and administrative buildings in the eastern city of kramatorsk