Air raid sirens have sounded across Ukraine with explosions reported in capital Kyiv early on Friday. At least five people were killed in the attack.
The city’s military administration said anti-aircraft units were in operation.
In the central town of Uman, three people were killed and eight wounded when a missile hit an apartment building, setting it ablaze, said Ihor Taburets, head of the military administration in the area, reported news agency Reuters.
In the central city of Dnipro a missile struck a house and a child and a young woman were killed, Borys Filatov, mayor of , said on Telegram. Three people were wounded in the strike.
As per Reuters, two people were wounded in the town of Ukrayinka in the Kyiv region.
Earlier reports said cities from central Ukraine to the southern Mykolaiv region had been hit by explosions.
As per the news agency, Interfax said explosions were reported after midnight in Dnipro, Kremenchuk and Poltava in central Ukraine and in Mykolaiv in the south. Interfax quoted accounts on the Telegram message service as saying unidentified airborne objects were headed for the west of the country.
