Day 325 of the Invasion of Ukraine: Powerful Explosions in Kyiv this Morning

Here are the highlights of events related to the war in Ukraine over the past 24 hours:

Powerful Explosions in Kyiv preceded air raid sirens

Four powerful explosions rocked the center of Kyiv this morning. For the first time since Russia launched periodic mass missile strikes against the Ukrainian capital and other populated areas in the country, air raid sirens sounded after the strikes, rather than before them.

The head of the administration of President Volodymyr Zelensky - Kyrylo Tymoshenko - reported on social networks that critical infrastructure was hit. He called on the people of Kyiv to go to the shelters as quickly as possible.

Mayor Vitaly Klitschko, for his part, wrote in Telegram that the explosions were in the Dnipro region of Kyiv and called on the city's residents to go home to bomb shelters.

Earlier, the Ukrainian army announced that the explosions in Kyiv were not a signal for the beginning of a new Russian offensive from the north, i.e. from Belarus.

After 10 o'clock this morning, an air alert was announced both in the Kyiv region and around Chernihiv, Poltava, Sumy. And in the Ukrainian-controlled parts of the Donetsk region.

According to the regional governor of Mykolaiv, quoted by Reuters, the authorities there detected the takeoff of dozens of Russian Tu-95 and Tu-22 bombers.

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