On the morning of Thursday, November 17, Russian troops launched a missile attack on Ukraine.

According to Vitalii Kim, chairman of the Nikolaev regional military administration, the first missiles were launched around 8 a.m., UNIAN reported.

"Four first missiles are in the air. Let's take care of ourselves," Kim wrote.

From 7:30 to 8:00 a.m., an air alert was declared in all regions of Ukraine.

Around 8:30, "Suspilne Dnipro" reported that the sounds of explosions could be heard in the city. Subsequently, it became known that in some areas of Dnieper disappeared power supply.

Around 9:15 it became known that the Russians attacked an infrastructure facility in the Odessa region.

"There is a threat of a massive missile strike on the entire territory of Ukraine. Please the residents of the region to be in shelters," the head of the Odessa regional military administration Maksym Marchenko urged.

Head of the Kyiv regional military administration Oleksiy Kuleba said that air defense is working in the region.

"Stay in shelters and safe places. In no case do not take pictures of the place of arrival and the work of the air defense," he stressed.

Also in social networks there are reports of air defense work in Cherkasy, Poltava and Kharkiv regions.

The leaders of several regions warned of the danger. In particular, the chairman of the Kirovograd regional military administration Andriy Raykovych said that there is a danger over the region. And the head of the Luhansk regional military administration Sergey Gaidai urged not to disregard the air-raid alarms today.

Ihor Taburets, head of the Cherkasy regional military administration, warned that there is a high probability of an air attack. Dmytro Lunin, head of the Poltava regional military administration, issued a similar message.

The head of the Khmelnytskyi regional military industrial association, Sergiy Gamaliy, warned of possible attacks on energy facilities.