Blasts heard in Ukrainian capital during first hours of new year

Explosions were heard across the Ukrainian capital, the mayor said Sunday in the first hours of the new year.

Vitali Klitschko said on Telegram that the blasts were heard in the Shevchenkivskyi and Holosiivskyi districts of Kyiv.

"Explosions are heard in the capital. Air defense is working," he said, adding that as a rocket was destroyed in the air, fragments fell on a parked car in the Shevchenkivskyi district.