15 February 2024 at 05:13 Flight alert across Ukraine Ukraine issued a national flight alert early Thursday, after the air force announced that bombers had taken off from a base in Russia. The mayor of Kyiv says on Telegram that there have been explosions in the city, but that the air defense is working. He asks the citizens to stay in bomb shelters. According to Reuters, witnesses report several explosions in various parts of Kyiv. According to the newspaper Kyiv Independent, there were also explosions in Dnipro early Thursday morning. – Several Tu-95 aircraft have taken off from the Olenja airport were registered, the Ukrainian Air Force wrote on Telegram. The airport is located in the Murmansk region. Later, the air force wrote that rockets were “heading towards Kyiv”. The Air Force has reported similar incidents where several aircraft have been in the air earlier in February and in January. At the end of December, Russia used the planes to carry out several airstrikes against Ukrainian cities, including the capital Kyiv, where a total of 39 people were killed. The bomber type is known in NATO as Bear and is also regularly observed off the coast of Norway. (NTB)
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