MOSCOW, Dec 14 Explosions are heard in the center of Kyiv, reported mayor of the city Vitali Klitschko in the Telegram channel.
"Explosions in the Shevchenkovsky district of the capital. Services are on their way. More details later,” he wrote.
At 05:55 local time (06:55 Moscow time) an air alert was announced in Kyiv. Later, the city military administration announced the work of air defense.
In addition, sirens sound in the Vinnitsa and Zhytomyr regions. management and communications throughout Ukraine. As Vladimir Putin stated, this was a response to a terrorist attack organized by the Kyiv regime on the Crimean bridge. Since then, air alerts have been announced in Ukrainian regions every day, sometimes throughout the country.
According to Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal, there is practically not a single energy facility left in the country that has not been attacked. Almost 50 percent of the energy system has been damaged — all thermal power plants and hydroelectric power stations, 45 substations of various classes, 87 high-voltage power lines.
February 24, Russia has been conducting a military special operation in Ukraine. Vladimir Putin called its task «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» According to the president, the ultimate goal of the operation is the liberation of Donbass and the creation of conditions that guarantee the security of Russia itself.