At least two "powerful" explosions have struck the outskirts of the western Ukrainian city of Lviv.
Lviv governor Maksym Kozytskyy said there had been two missile strikes. Sky News' team in the area heard three loud bangs and a city council official also said three explosions had been heard.
It is understood an oil depot was hit in the attack.
Mr Kozytskyy said five people are injured, according to initial data, and warned that "the threat of a missile strike is still there".
Both he and the city's mayor, Andriy Sadovyi, urged people to stay indoors. "Stay in the shelters!" Mr Kozytskyy said. "Don't walk down the street! Don't take pictures of anything! Do not read information in anonymous Telegram channels and do not spread it from there!"
Footage shows plumes of heavy black smoke in the sky near the city. Sky News correspondent Sally Lockwood, who is at the scene, heard air raid sirens and said there were reports of jets flying over.
There are concerns that the large fire caused by the strike, close to homes and two petrol stations, could spread due to high winds, and police and soldiers have been moving people away from the area.
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"There are a number of apartment blocks in the vicinity of the fire and there are lots of people out looking at the fire," Lockwood said. Many people are emotional, some are quite angry - there are high emotions, certainly."
While initial reports suggested a nearby communications tower could have been the target, Sky News understands it was an oil depot that was hit.
The attack happened as US president Joe Biden was over the border in Warsaw, Poland.
"There's some commentary here to suggest there is no coincidence... that this is a message to President Biden," Lockwood said.
Defence and security analyst Michael Clarke told Sky News: "The Russians are using the missiles to probe for supply routes and depots and stuff that's coming in from Poland, so every time they think they see something around Lviv, I think they go for it."
Lviv, a city of more than 700,000 people roughly 45 miles east of Ukraine's border with Poland, has been largely spared of major attacks in recent weeks.
Russia says footage 'from Black Sea' shows missile launch targeting region west of Kyiv
Earlier, Russia claimed it had launched missile strikes on Ukrainian military infrastructure from the Black Sea in the northwestern city of Zhytomyr - around 96 miles from the capital of Kyiv.
A crew of a small missile ship off the Black Sea Fleet launched four Kalibr cruise missiles at military facilities belonging to the Ukrainian Armed Forces from the Black Sea, Russia's Ministry of Defence said.
"As a result of an accurate hit, the high-precision weaponry destroyed weapons and military equipment depot on the territory of Zhytomyr Region," it said, in a Facebook post with footage of the blasts.
Russia appeared to be scaling back its ambitions in Ukraine to focus on consolidating control of eastern areas, but the UK warmed that the bombardment of cities would likely continue.
Another video released by the Defence Ministry on Saturday allegedly showed an airstrike on a Ukrainian Buk missile system performed by an Iskander missile in the Kyiv region - causing a huge explosion.
Russia has previously pointed to far bigger ambitions but stiff resistance from Ukraine forces, logistical problems and reported low morale may have taken their toll as its forces have been unable to seize any major Ukrainian city more than four weeks into the conflict.
Chernobyl workers' town 'seized' by Russian forces
Vladimir Putin's forces have taken control of the town of Slavutych, where workers at the defunct Chernobyl nuclear plant live, the governor of Kyiv region Oleksandr Pavlyuk said on Saturday.
Mr Pavlyuk wrote in an online post that Russian troops had occupied the hospital in Slavutych and kidnapped the mayor. The reports are yet to be verified.
However, Sky News verified a video located to Slavutych showing demonstrators gathered outside Slavutych City Hall while gunfire can be heard.
Yesterday, Ukraine said its troops had repulsed the first attack by Russian troops closing in on the town.
Chernihiv 'surrounded by the enemy'
The Ukrainian city of Chernihiv, in the north of the country, has been cut off by Russian forces, its regional governor said on Friday.
"The city has been conditionally, operationally surrounded by the enemy," Viacheslav Chaus said, adding that it was being bombarded by artillery and warplanes.
Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk earlier said that Ukraine wanted to open a humanitarian corridor in Chernihiv on Saturday.
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In the eastern city of Kharkiv, four people were killed on Friday when Russian shelling hit a clinic providing humanitarian aid, regional police said.
There is also increasing evidence of mass graves in Mariupol - including one that appears to hold 200 bodies - the head of the UN's human rights team in Ukraine has said.
Ten humanitarian corridors confirmed for today
Meanwhile, Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk announced on Saturday that 10 human corridors had been confirmed for the day across the country.
It comes as Ukraine's prosecutor general office announced that at least 136 children have died since the Russian invasion a month ago.
Speaking on national television, she said civilians trying to flee the besieged port city of Mariupol would have to
leave in private cars as Russian forces were not letting buses through their checkpoints.
Ms Vereshchuk added that more than 100,000 people needed to be evacuated from the city.
On Friday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy again appealed to Russia to negotiate an end to the war, but said his country would not agree to give up any of its territories for the sake of peace.
Vladimir Putin's forces are under great strain in many parts of the country as the US and other countries have accelerated their transfer of arms and supplies to Ukraine.
However, the UK's Ministry of Defence published a map of the areas in Ukraine under Russian assault on Saturday - showing that Putin's forces are showing little sign of letting up.
It shows Kyiv continuing to be encircled, as well as predicting advances into more cities in the north and south of the country by Russian troops.
The US also said Russian forces were no longer in full control of Kherson, the first city to fall after the invasion began.
It's another apparent boost for Ukraine, which also claimed to have destroyed a Russian landing ship near the coastal city of Berdyansk this week.
'300 killed in theatre attack'
Despite the counterattacks, the death toll mounts - and the council in the southern city of Mariupol said on Friday that it believed about 300 people had died in the bombing of a theatre last week.
It would make it the worst single loss of life in the month-long war.
"Children" was written in large letters outside the theatre - intended to be seen from above - in the hope of protecting the estimated 1,300 sheltering inside although despite this, the building was still attacked.
The governor of Donetsk has said Ukrainian forces still control Mariupol - despite it being relentlessly attacked for weeks.
Pavlo Kyrylenko said about 65,000 people had fled in private vehicles or on foot, but attempts to facilitate mass evacuations had mostly failed.
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