Mayor Vitali Klitschko described the situation as “threatening”. “The enemy wants to conquer the heart of our country. But we will fight and not give up on Kyiv,” he wrote on the Telegram news channel. He also warned against panic and false information.
Russia had previously announced new attacks on the information infrastructure of the Ukrainian secret service, including in the Kiev suburb of Brovary. The people of Kyiv who live near such facilities have been asked to leave their homes, the Defense Ministry in Moscow said. Russia’s attack on Ukraine began last Thursday.
Meanwhile, the Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov showed himself in photos published on social networks with a bulletproof vest. Two heavily armed soldiers stood in the background. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Resnikov had recently published pictures of themselves that they should show in Kyiv – to counter speculation about a possible escape from the country.