KIEV, November 12. /TASS/. Air raid sirens were activated in Ukraine’s Poltava and Kharkov regions on Saturday, according to an official alerting system.

The air raid alerts were declared at 08:02 am and 08:03 am respectively, according to the system.

Last night, air raid sirens were heard twice in the Nikolayev Region and once in the Kirovograd Region. Also, the Kiev-controlled area of the Kherson Region was put on alert for missile strikes.

On Friday evening, air raid sirens went off in the Dnepropetrovsk and the Kharkov regions, and earlier on Friday in the Kirovograd, the Nikolayev and the Cherkassy regions.