India, Aug. 30 -- Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk region was under "massive attack" early Saturday, the governor said, reporting strikes in Dnipro and Pavlograd.

"The region is under a massive attack. Explosions are being heard," Sergiy Lysak wrote on Telegram. He also said that Russian overnight strikes on Friday killed two people in Dnipropetrovsk.

Dnipropetrovsk is not one of the five Ukrainian regions that Moscow has publicly claimed as Russian territory. Those are Donetsk, Kherson, Lugansk, Zaporizhzhia and Crimea.

The region had been largely spared from intense fighting since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. But Kyiv acknowledged on Tuesday that Russian troops had entered the region, after Moscow clai...