Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitchko said multiple blasts hit a central district in the Ukrainian capital on Monday.

"Several explosions in the Shevchenkivskyi district — in the center of the capital. All services are going to the places. Details later," he wrote on Telegram.

The district houses a university, several government offices and includes the historic old town.

The blasts come after months of relative calm in the capital, which has been spared most of the fighting that has raged in the country's east.

A spokesperson for the Emergency Service in Kyiv told several media outlets there were an unspecified number of deaths and injuries, with rescuers at work in several locations.

Meanwhile, authorities reported explosions in the western city of Lviv and the central city of Dnipro.

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