Drones and missiles continued to bombard the Ukrainian capital on Monday, only a few hours after another attack.
Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko said there were explosions in central districts, with emergency services dispatched to the scene.
Many residents initially ignored the air raid alarm until the calm was shattered by loud blasts in the heart of the city.
"Don't leave the shelters!" he wrote on the Telegram messaging app as residents ran to shelters in metro stations.
There were no immediate reports of damage or deaths.
Kyiv has been battered by Russian strikes 16 times this month alone, with the last two nights being especially ferocious.
On Saturday, Ukraine suffered the biggest drone attack since the start of the war, according to local military authorities.
They have previously accused Kremlin of trying to "keep the civilian population in a state of deep psychological tension" with continuous attacks aimed at non-military infrastructure.
Ukraine's military intelligence has claimed, without offering evidence, that Russia is plotting a “large-scale provocation” at a nuclear power plant it occupies in the southeast of the country, with the aim of disrupting a looming Ukrainian counteroffensive.
Russian forces would strike the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the biggest in Europe, and then report a radioactive leak in order to trigger an international probe that would pause the hostilities, the statement said.
Ukraine claimed the disruption is intended to give the Russian forces the respite they need to regroup ahead of the coming assault.
The claim mirrors similar statements regularly made by Moscow that Kyiv is plotting provocations involving various dangerous weapons or substances in order to then accuse Russia of war
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