The Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) has assigned terrorist threat levels to the country's regions, the SBU press center said overnight into on Aug. 12.
A red (real threat) terror alert – the highest level – was issued for Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts and Crimea due to escalation of the situation on the administrative border with Crimea and in the war-torn zone, the press center’s report, posted on the SBU website, said.
A yellow (elevated threat) terror alert was issued for the Zaporizhia, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Sumy, Kharkiv, Kherson and Chernihiv Oblasts.
A blue (potential threat) terror alert was issued for the Kyiv Oblast and Kyiv, as well as for the Dnipropetrovsk, Zakarpattia, Rivne, Khmelnytsky, Cherkasy and Chernivtsi regions.
A gray (possible threat) terror alert – the lowest level – was issued for the Vinnytsia, Volyn, Zhytomyr, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kirovohrad, Lviv, Poltava and Ternopil Oblasts.