Further explosions were also heard in the cities of Kropyvnytskyi and Cherkasy, Suspilne reported.Kyiv Mayor Vitalii Klitshko said that the roof of a residential building caught fire in the Pechersk neighborhood of the city.Ukraine's Air Force issued the air raid alerts across all regions the country around 6 a.m. local time, warning of the attack.Multiple cruise and ballistic missiles were reportedly launched from the Black Sea, as well as Russia's Astrakhan Oblast and Krasnodar Krai, toward multiple regions.Ukraine's Air Force reported earlier in the night that Tu-95 strategic bombers took off from the Russian airfields of Olenya in Murmansk Oblast. Later in the night, the War Monitor Telegram channel reported that a total of 17 Tu-95 strategic bombers were in flight, with seven taking off at the Engels airbase in Saratov Oblast.In recent months, Russia has primarily focused on large-scale drone attacks to overwhelm Ukrainian air defenses in cities across the country.

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