Several loud explosions were heard in central and eastern kyiv on Monday evening after an air raid alert was sounded, AFP journalists reported.
The explosions sounded shortly after 11 p.m. (2000 GMT) and a luminous trajectory that appeared to come from an air defense missile strike was visible in the sky.
“Anti-aircraft defenses are working in kyiv. Stay in shelters,” the Ukrainian capital’s mayor, Vitali Klitschko, said on Telegram. An AFP journalist heard five loud explosions in the Pozniaky district in the east of the city.
kyiv has been targeted by several air raids in recent weeks, including a Russian missile attack in July that hit a children’s hospital.
On Wednesday, Russia fired 89 drones at Ukraine, more than 40 of which were shot down over the capital and its environs.
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