Ukraine's interior minister said Wednesday that police in the capital Kyiv had received reports of an explosion at a district court and that emergency services were responding on the scene, reported AFP.

"There is an emergency in the Shevchenkivskyi court of Kyiv. The police received a report of an explosion. Police investigative teams, special forces, explosives experts and other necessary services arrived at the scene," Interior Minister Igor Klymenko said in a statement on social media, without giving details of casualties.

Later, another explosion was heard Wednesday at a district court in the Ukrainian capital, an AFP correspondent said.

The building of Kyiv's Shevchenkivskyi court was cordoned off and there were a number of ambulances outside. The interior ministry earlier said police received a report of an explosion.