Several powerful explosions rocked Kyiv as authorities warned that the Ukrainian capital was under threat of missile attack.
鈥淓xplosions in the capital. Air defence forces are operating. Stay in shelters!鈥 Kyiv鈥檚 Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on Telegram.
Ukraine鈥檚 air force also announced a countrywide air alert in the early hours of Saturday (local time) and said on social media that drones and missiles were moving over several Ukrainian regions, including the capital.
AFP journalists in Kyiv heard several loud explosions, some accompanied by bright flashes that lit the horizon orange.
The air alert comes as Ukraine鈥檚 President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is set to meet President Donald Trump in Florida to discuss a proposed plan to end the fighting that has killed tens of thousands since 2022.
Russia accused Zelenskyy and his EU backers of seeking to 鈥渢orpedo鈥 the US-brokered plan.
The latest plan is a 20-point proposal that would freeze the war on its current front line but open the door for Ukraine to pull back troops from the east, where demilitarised buffer zones could be created, according to details revealed by Zelenskyy this week.
-Agence France-Presse
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