Ukraine’s Kiev has been attacked for the first time in months, the city’s mayor said, adding that large-scale explosions had been heard in the capital.
Voices of “ Strong explosions were heard on the left bank of the capital, ” Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said in a post on the Telegram messaging app on Saturday, Referring to the left bank of the Dnipro River.
There are no immediate reports of casualties.
AFP news agency quoted its journalists in the city as saying that two loud explosions were heard in central Kiev on Saturday morning and the pygdans were seen in the sky Were giving.
Airstrikes for Kiev and nearby areas were announced just minutes before the blast، And city officials appealed to residents to stay in shelters.
Saturday’s attacks were the first attacks on Kiev since September 21, when Ukrainian air defenses fired missiles at the capital. Seven people, including a child, were injured in the wreckage of the missile.
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said earlier this week that Ukraine had more Western air defense systems in anticipation of the second full winter of Russian attacks on energy facilities Has been deployed.
