Russian strategic bombers fired missiles at Kyiv from as far away as the Caspian Sea early on Sunday and explosions shook two of the Ukrainian capital's eastern districts, Ukraine's air force and the city's mayor said.
Dark smoke funnelled into the sky above the Darnytskyi and Dniprovskyi districts on the outskirts of Kyiv. At least one person was hospitalised though no deaths were immediately reported, Mayor Vitaly Klitschko said.
Russia's Defence Ministry said it had fired rockets at Kyiv from long distance and destroyed T-72 tanks and armoured vehicles that had been supplied to Ukraine by eastern European countries and were held in a rail car repair building. "According to preliminary data, the launched missiles from Tu-95 aircraft from the Caspian Sea," the Ukrainian air force said in a statement.
The mayor of the historic town of Brovary, around 20 km from Kyiv's centre, urged people to remain inside their homes as there had been reports of the smell of soot coming from the smoke.
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