THREE separate blasts in the eastern Ukrainian city of Dnipropetrovsk have left 15 people injured.

Officials said the first blast came at a tramway stop in the city centre, injuring five people.

Seven people were injured in the second blast outside a cinema, while the third wounded three people near a railway station.

The Interior Minister, Vitaly Zakharchenko, said he was urgently flying to Dnipropetrovsk to investigate the blasts.

Euro 2012 will be hosted in the city of Donetsk this summer - which is 250km from Dnipropetrovsk.