Huge explosions lit up the sky early on Sunday south of the capital, Kyiv, where people hunkered down in homes, underground garages and subway stations and the government maintained a 39-hour curfew in anticipation of a full-scale assault by Russian forces

Flames billowed into the sky before dawn from an oil depot near an airbase in Vasylkiv, near Kyiv.

Meanwhile, the Ukrainian President; Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s office said another explosion was at the civilian Zhuliany Airport.