Two loud explosions were heard on Saturday morning in the center of Kyiv shortly before air alert sirens sounded in the Ukrainian capital, regularly targeted by Russian missiles, AFP noted.
“According to preliminary information, air defense worked against ballistic weapons. The alert continues, stay in shelters,” city mayor Vitali Klitschko said on Telegram.
“No casualties have been reported so far,” he added later.
AFP journalists saw two lines of white smoke in the sky, probably left by two Ukrainian anti-aircraft defense missiles, just before the two explosions.
Air warning sirens then sounded in the capital, last hit at the end of September by Russian strikes.
Last winter, systematic strikes on Ukraine’s energy system regularly left thousands of homes without heat.
On Tuesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said his country had deployed new air defense systems supplied by its Western allies, in anticipation of a new wave of Russian attacks on its energy infrastructure.