Several blasts were heard in central Kyiv and in Dnipro on Monday morning. Reportedly, air defence systems are currently at work, Ukrainian Telegram channels write.
According to Suspilne news outlet, an air raid warning was declared in Dnipro following the explosions.
Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko reported several explosions in Kyiv’s Shevchenkivskyi district. “Several explosions in the Shevchenkivskyi district, the heart of the capital. All services are en route to the scene. More details later,” he wrote. Local Telegram channels point out that at least four or five blasts were heard in the city.
One of the missiles reportedly hit a monument to Ukrainian historian Mykhailo Hrushevskyi, adviser at the Ukrainian interior ministry Anton Herashchenko and several Telegram channels write. Cars are on fire on the roads, he added.
There are casualties and injured citizens following the blasts in Kyiv, Ukrainian emergency services spokesperson Svitlana Vodolaha reported. The number is not stated.
Train service has been suspended on the red line of the Kyiv metro, all subway stations are functioning as bomb shelters, metro officials stated.
Ukrainian media also report explosions in the Khmelnytskyi, Zhytomyr and Kyiv regions, as well as Ternopil (a city in western Ukraine), Lviv and its surroundings.
This is the first major attack on the Ukrainian capital over the past several months. The last time Kyiv was struck with missiles was on 26 June, when the Russian military launched 14 missiles on the city. One of them hit a high-rise apartment building in the Shevchenkivskyi district, killing one person and wounding six more.
