Multiple explosions have been heard in Ukraine’s capital Kyiv with town’s mayor saying air defences have been working following a missile assault on Friday morning.
Media stories, quoting witnesses on the bottom, mentioned a sequence of loud blasts have been heard in Kyiv and smoke could possibly be seen rising over a part of town.
“Ballistic missile from the north!” the Ukrainian Air Force warned in a Telegram message.
Local media outlet the Kyiv Independent mentioned a number of explosions befell at about 7am (05:00 GMT). It quoted Mayor Vitali Klitschko as saying that “a number of automobiles have been on hearth within the Holosiivskyi district of town because of the falling particles from a missile”.
Fires additionally broke out within the Solomianskyi and Shevchenkivskyi districts of Kyiv, in addition to at a development website within the Dnipro district.
At least two individuals have been reported injured within the assault and hospitalised.
Ukraine’s Air Force warned previous to the air raid {that a} MiG-31 Russian fighter jet able to firing hypersonic missiles had taken off from a Russian airbase, Kyiv Independent reported.
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