The Ukrainian capital Kyiv issued an air raid alert in the early hours of Tuesday morning, with authorities urging residents via a Telegram post to head to shelters, after President Volodymyr Zelensky warned last week that Russia was preparing to launch a large-scale attack.
Separately, Ihor Terekhov, the mayor of Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, said on Telegram that the city had been struck by drones and 2 missiles, adding that 1 woman had been injured. Reuters was unable to independently verify these details.