KIEV, October 26. /TASS/. The air alert was declared in a number of Ukrainian regions on Wednesday morning, according to the online service Air Raid Alert Map of Ukraine.

So far, the Kharkov, the Poltava, the Dnepropetrovsk and the Sumy regions as well as the Ukrainian-controlled part of the Zaporozhye Region have been put on alert for missile strikes.

Air-raid warnings were also activated in the Nikolayev and the Odessa regions, and residents in the capital Kiev were prompted to make their way to shelters.