Missile strikes have been reported in Kyiv and Kharkiv while other cities reported explosions. Meanwhile Moscow says "anti-terror" measures have been taken after Yevgeny Prighozin's challenge to top brass. DW has more.
Edneüs informs via foreign media that officials in Ukraine reported damage and casualties after a missile strike hit Kyiv and the eastern city of Kharkiv early Saturday.
Air defenses also "detected and destroyed more than 20 missiles in the airspace around Kyiv", said Sergiy Popko, head of the Kyiv military administration.
The debris of the fallen drone triggered a fire in Kyiv's tower block and injured seven people.
"Fragments of a rocket hit a parking lot," Kyiv's mayor Vitali Klitschko posted on social media and said two people were injured in central Kyiv's Solomyanskyi district.
He added that emergency services have been deployed to the site of the explosion.
At least three Russian missiles targeted Kharkiv, with one hitting a gas pipeline which triggered a fire, Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov said.
For more than an hour, the entire country was put on air raid alert.
Ukraine's air force had separately reported missiles heading towards northern regions of Sumy and Poltava and the central city of Dnipro.
"Several houses were completely destroyed. Huge crater after the explosion", said Borys Filatov, mayor of the central city of Dnipro.