Several explosions could be heard this morning at around 8.30 local time (05.30 GMT) in the centre of kyiv, amid a massive Russian missile and drone attack on several regions of Ukraine. Minutes later, two more rounds of explosions were heard from the heart of the Ukrainian capital.
Telegram channels reported explosions in other parts of the country, including in the northwestern city of Lutsk, where authorities said an attack damaged an apartment building. The Ukrainian Air Force warned that missiles of various types were headed for different parts of the country.
The head of the Kiev military administration, Sergey Popko, confirmed that anti-aircraft defences are active in the surrounding areas of the capital and has asked all residents of the city and the region to seek shelter in bunkers, basements or metro stations.
At least three civilians killed
Local authorities have so far reported at least three civilian deaths. One in the city of Lutsk in northwestern Ukraine and two others in the regions of Dnipropetrovsk (center) and Zaporizhia (southeast).
According to initial information from the local regional military administration in the Poltava region in central Ukraine, an industrial infrastructure there was hit during the attack. Five people were injured.
In the city of Lutsk, fragments from a drone shot down by Ukrainian air defences damaged a multi-storey building, local authorities said. The extent of the damage and the number of injured are still being established.
The attack continued, with missiles targeting various Ukrainian regions, the Ukrainian Air Force reported in real time on its Telegram channel.
The day before, another Russian attack on civilian infrastructure in the Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk, close to the Donetsk front, hit at least three journalists, of Ukrainian, American and British nationality, who were in a hotel, authorities reported, causing the death of a British security adviser from the Reuters news agency.
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