As many people live in Kyiv now as before the war – Mayor

Vitalii Klitschko, Mayor of Kyiv, said that the same number of people live in the capital now as before the beginning of the Russian full-scale invasion, namely 3.6 million people.

Source: Vitalii Klitschko, Kyiv City Mayor, in an interview with The Spiegel

Quote: "We count how many mobile phones are in use. Before the war, there were 3.8 million people here, in March there were less than a million, in July there were 2-2.5 million, now there are 3.6 million. Of them, 300,000 are registered refugees from other regions of the country. The city is full."

Details: According to Klitschko, there are more than 50,000 occupiers on the northern border of Ukraine.

The mayor fears a repeated Russian attack on Kyiv.

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