China News Service, February 24. According to comprehensive foreign media reports, media reporters heard explosions in Ukraine's capital Kiev, the second largest city in Kharkov, Mariupol and other places.
Smoke billows after a power and heating plant was shelled in the Luhansk region of eastern Ukraine on February 22, 2022.
In Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, CNN reporters heard "a steady stream of huge explosions."
Several explosions also occurred in the Boryspil region east of the Ukrainian capital Kiev, reports said.
In addition, two residents of the Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk told CNN that they heard at least two loud explosions in the early hours of the 24th local time.
In Mariupol, near the Russian border, residents said they heard gunfire in the city's eastern outskirts.
In addition, CNN media reporters also heard several loud explosions near the Ukrainian capital Kiev.