Explosions thundered in the Ukrainian city of Odessa against the background of an air raid alert announced earlier in the region, Zerkalo Nedeli reports on its Telegram channel.

“Odessa, explosions in the city. Preliminarily, air defense is working, ”the publication says. Residents were urged to remain in shelters until the end of the alarm.It also became known about explosions in the part of the Zaporozhye region controlled by Ukraine, it is reported about the work of air defense systems. According to the online map of the Ukrainian Ministry of Digital Transformation, an air raid alert has been issued in the Poltava, Cherkasy and Kirovohrad regions of the country. Earlier it was reported that two explosions occurred in Kharkov. The head of the regional military administration, Oleg Sinegubov, announced a possible missile attack. According to him, one rocket could hit the ground.