On February 24, Russia launched a full-scale military attack on Ukraine. Every time Russia attacks Ukraine from the air, an air warning system is triggered in the cities and calls on Ukrainians to go to the bomb shelter. From February 24 to mid-April, the total duration of air sirens exceeded 500 hours.
From February 24 to December 31, more than 14.870 air raid alerts were sounded: an average of 47 per day, a minimum of 4 alarms, and a maximum of 189.
Statistics by regions
- Transcarpathia — 202;
- Lviv — 254;
- Volyn — 329;
- Chernivtsi — 222;
- Ternpil — 329;
- Rivne — 316;
- Khmelnitskyy — 294;
- Zhytomyr — 552;
- Vinnitsa — 517;
- Odesa — 582;
- Kyiv — 638;
- Chernihiv — 536;
- Sumy — 565;
- Kharkiv — 1.558;
- Cherkasy — 681;
- Poltava — 801;
- Kirovohrad — 776;
- Mykolaiv — 916;
- Kherson — 358;
- Dnipro — 1.190;
- Zaporizhia — 1.235;
- Donetsk — 1.294;
- Lhansk — 2;
- Kharkiv — 1.558;
- Crimea — 6.
The last alarm of 2022 took place on December 31 and lasted 3 hours and 13 minutes. The first air raid alert of 2023 began at 00:35 a. m. and lasted 4 hours and 15 minutes.
