MOSCOW, December 24./TASS/. An air raid alert has been declared in Ukraine’s Dnepropetrovsk, Kirovograd, Nikolayev and Poltava regions, according to the country’s official air raid alert portal.

Air raid reports have been received starting from 10:13 a.m. local time (7:13 a.m. GMT). The sirens also were on in the Kiev-controlled areas of the Donetsk People’s Republic, the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions.