“Air Alert: Russian Tactical Aircraft Take-Off Causes Widespread Alarm in Ukraine”

Updated at 16:46.

In Kyiv, the air alert was re-announced.

Updated at 16:42.

In the Zhytomyr region and in Kyiv – the end of the air raid alert.

Updated at 16:40.

Po data The Buchansk city council was alerted due to the take-off of Russian tactical aircraft.

“Preliminary – due to the take-off of the Tu-22 in the north-east. Launches of X-31 missiles are possible,” the city council said.

As of 16.35 air alert spread to the Sumy, Kyiv and Zhytomyr regions.

As of 16.30 an air alert has been declared in Chernihiv, Poltava, Kharkiv, Donetsk, Cherkassy, ​​Luhansk, Dnepropetrovsk, Kirovohrad and Zaporozhye regions, as well as in Kyiv and Crimea.