Explosions were reported across Ukraine on Monday, including Kyiv, in what AP journalists on the scene in the capital said "appeared to be the result of missile strikes."
Details: Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko said in a Telegram post there were several explosions in the Shevchenkiv district, in the center of the capital. Lawmaker Lesia Vasylenko tweeted a photo of an explosion near Kyiv National University.
Photo: Lesia Vasylenko/Twitter
- In addition to the first explosions to rock Kyiv in months, blasts were also reported in Dnipro, Odessa, Khmelnytskyi, Mykolaiv, and Zhytomyr, according to Telegram posts by Ukrainian officials and local media.
The big picture: The blasts came as Russian President Vladimir Putin blaming Ukraine's special services for the explosion of a bridge linking mainland Russia to Crimea, which he labeled a terrorist attack.
- Ukrainian officials have not claimed responsibility for the explosion.
- Putin was meeting with his national security council to discuss the matter on Monday.
