Air-raid warning was announced all over Ukraine due to launch of missiles
On Saturday evening, an air-raid warning was announced throughout the territory of Ukraine due to the launch of cruise missiles and later - Kinzhal aeroballistic missiles.
Source: alerts.in.ua, a map of air raid warnings in Ukraine; Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
Details: At 18:11, Ukraine’s Air Force said there was a threat of missile strikes in Kherson, Mykolaiv and Kirovohrad oblasts; the danger later spread to Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.
Air raid warnings were also later issued in Kyiv, Zhytomyr, Chernihiv, Vinnytsia, Cherkasy, Kirovohrad, Sumy and Poltava oblasts.
The Air Force later reported that a number of cruise missiles were advancing towards Ukraine’s Kirovohrad Oblast.
It was later announced that the missiles were heading towards Cherkasy Oblast. Ukraine’s Air Force stressed that the missiles might change their course.
As of 18:30, air raid warnings have been issued across all of Ukraine, except for Odesa Oblast.
At 18:37, Air Force reported that cruise missiles entered the airspace over Kyiv Oblast. At 18:45, the missiles reached Vinnytsia Oblast. At 18:55, they reached Khmelnytskyi Oblast.
Later, the Air Forces reported that Russian troops launched Kinzhal aeroballistic missiles on Ukraine from the Russian city of Tambov and cruise missiles from Belarus.
Updated: The air-raid warning was cancelled in almost all oblasts around 19:40.
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