MOSCOW, March 19. /TASS/. An air raid alert has been declared across Ukraine, the country’s air raid alert notification service reported.

At 5:07 p.m. Moscow time (2:07 p.m. GMT), air raid alerts came into effect in Kiev and the Cherkassy Region and the entire country was in the red zone within two minutes.

Earlier, air raid alerts were repeatedly declared in Ukraine’s northern, central and eastern regions.