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Mayor: Explosions occur in central Kyiv district

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Explosions occurred in Kyiv's Holosiivskyi District early in the morning of March 9, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on Telegram. The Holosiivskyi District is located in the southwestern part of the city.

"Explosions in the Holosiivskyi District of the capital. All (emergency) services are en route to the site. More details to follow," he wrote.

A loud explosion was heard in Kyiv early in the morning on March 9, as reported by a Kyiv Independent journalist.

Earlier, the Kyiv Oblast military administration reported that the oblast's air defenses had been operating.

Explosions were reported in the cities of Kharkiv, Khmelnytsky, and Zhytomyr, as well as Kyiv, Poltava, Lviv, Vinnytsia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ternopil oblasts amid a mass Russian attack overnight on March 9.

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