KIEV, November 10. /TASS/. Eight regions in eastern and central Ukraine were put on alert for missile strikes on Thursday afternoon, according to an official alerting system.

Earlier, an air raid alert was declared in the country’s Dnepropetrovsk and Nikolayev regions. Those have now been joined by the Cherkassy, the Kirovograd, the Poltava, the Kharkov, the Chernigov and the Sumy regions as well as the Kiev-controlled part of the Zaporozhye Region.