Air-Raid Alerts in Kyiv as Warnings Extend to Nearby Regions
The notifications were drawn from Ukraine’s official digital alert map with no immediate confirmation of strikes or damage.
Overview
- Kyiv’s air-raid sirens were activated at 09:12 MSK on January 16, according to the Ministry of Digital Transformation’s online map.
- Concurrent alerts were reported in Kyiv Oblast as well as neighboring Chernihiv and Sumy oblasts, the map showed.
- Earlier overnight, alarms began at 00:53 MSK and covered nine regions including Zhytomyr, Kyiv, Chernihiv, Sumy, Poltava, Cherkasy, Kirovohrad, Dnipropetrovsk, and Kharkiv.
- RIA Novosti relayed the alerts based on the ministry’s real-time map rather than independent on-the-ground reporting.
- The available coverage did not report confirmed strikes, casualties, damage assessments, or an all-clear at the time of publication.