Mayors of 3 Ukrainian cities report strikes by Russian missiles

Mayors of Ukraine's eastern city of Kharkiv, the capital Kyiv and the western city of Lviv reported on Thursday that Russian missiles had struck the cities and caused a series of explosions.

Kharkiv's Ihor Terekhov said officials were clarifying what had been hit and whether there were any casualties, while Kyiv's Volodymyr Klitschko warned of possible power cuts there and asked residents to charge their phones.

Most of Ukraine's western city of Lviv was left without electricity after fresh Russian missile strikes on Thursday morning, the city's mayor said. 

40 percent of Kyiv population without power after Russian strikes, mayor says