Kyiv

Alyona Mazurenko — SUNDAY, 27 FEBRUARY 2022, 12:42 PM

A convoy of Russian military vehicles marked with the letter “V” is moving from Dmytrivka to Zabuchchia, to the southwest of Kyiv.

IRYNA BALACHUK — SUNDAY, 27 FEBRUARY 2022, 07:09

In the capital, a sabotage and reconnaissance group (SRG) of the enemy shot a family with three children. Both adults and one child were killed.

Anastasia Kalatur - Sunday, February 27, 2022, 03:41

Russian projectiles hit a radioactive waste disposal site of the “Radon Association'' Kyiv branch. There is no threat to the population according to preliminary estimates.

Source: State Nuclear Regulatory Inspection of Ukraine (SNRIU) on Facebook citing the company's staff

IRYNA BALACHUK — SATURDAY, 26 FEBRUARY 2022, 10:06 PM

Since the beginning of the Russian military attacks on Ukraine, 14 military people and fighters of territorial defense forces, and 6 civilians were killed. 71 people were wounded; 25 out of these were civilians.

The curfew in Kyiv will last from 17:00 on Saturday, February 26, to 8:00 on Monday, February 28.

Starting from February 26, Kyiv imposes updated curfew times from 5 pm to 8 am.

On 26 February, a bridge near the village of Stoyanka was blown up on the Kyiv-Zhytomyr highway.

35 people, including two children, were injured by enemy combat operations in Kyiv as of the morning of February 26.

Kateryna Tyschenko – Saturday, 26 February 2022, 09:05

Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba demands that the world completely isolate Russia after its missile hit an apartment building in Kyiv.

Source: Kuleba on Twitter

Olena Roschyna – Saturday, 26 February 2022, 09:04

Herman Galuschenko, Ukraine’s Minister of Energy stated that the country’s armed forces protected the Kyiv hydroelectric power plant (HPP) from the Russian occupiers, and that the HPP it is working again.

Source: Galushchenko and the Ministry of Energy on Facebook

Saturday, 26 February 2022, 08:36

Russian missile hit an apartment building at 6-A Lobanovs’kogo Avenue in Kyiv.

Source: State Emergency Service

Details: State Emergency Service confirmed this information.

Saturday, 26 February 2022, 06:08

Shots are heard, street fighting continues in the central part of Kyiv.

Sources: Ukrayinska Pravda, eyewitnesses, Suspilne

Details: Shots fired from assault rifles are heard in the vicinity of ​​​​Peremohy Square, the railway station, and Bohdan Khmelnitsky Street.

Saturday, February 26, 2022, 02:45

The explosions in the Troieshchyna district of Kyiv are an attempt by the Russians to destroy thermal power plant TPP-6.

Source: Ukrainska Pravda interlocutor in the command of the Armed Forces

Kateryna Tyshchenko - Friday, February 25, 2022,10:40 pm

The National Guard exposed a Russian sabotage and reconnaissance unit (SRU) in Kyiv operating under the guise of a territorial defense unit.

Source: National Guard of Ukraine

FRIDAY, 25 FEBRUARY, 2022, 8:43 P.M.

The mayor of Kyiv stated that the situation is threatening for Kyiv: this night will be very difficult.
Source: Klitschko's address

KATERYNA TYSHCHENKO - FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2022, 2:23 P.M.

Kyiv has entered the defense phase, the situation is difficult, the enemy wants to destroy the capital.
Source : Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko at a briefing

Kyiv municipality is calling on the residents of Obolon district not to go in the streets as hostilities are imminent.

KATERYNA TYSCHENKО — FRIDAY, 25 FEBRUARY 2022, 10:52

There is fighting near Kyiv around the settlements of Gostomel, Vorzel and Bucha.

Source: Oleksiy Arestovich, advisor to the head of the Office of the President, at a press briefing on Friday
Ad verbatim: "The greatest danger is now developing from the direction of Dymer-Ivankov, this is northwest of Kyiv. Fighting is already going on there now in the areas of Gostomel, Vorzel and Bucha."

Friday, 09:45

The Russian military seized two Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) vehicles, rushing into the center of Kyiv, followed by a convoy of Russian trucks. As of 9:45, the trucks have already been disarmed.
Source: Deputy Defense Minister Anna Malyar on Facebook, AFU Ground Forces

In the morning of February 25, the subway in Kyiv is working in transportation mode and as a shelter - many people descended in the stations to take cover from possible shelling.

Source: Subway on Twitter, UP correspondent from the scene

Subway announcement ad verbatim: "Dear passengers! The subway is operating normally. Due to organisational reasons, the red line runs to "Shulyavskaya" station. We would like to remind you that the entrance to the station is free.”

Details: At a number of stations on the right bank, people took shelter to wait out possible shelling.

Friday, 25 February 2022, 07:12

Air raid alarms have been turned on in Kyiv, and the city administration is urging everyone to find shelter in the subway or in a bomb shelter.

Source: Telegram of the Kyiv City State Administration.

Friday, 25 February 2022, 06:05

Russian troops that are advancing towards Kyiv from the [Chernobyl] Exclusion Zone, were stopped near the town of Ivankiv, where Ukraine’s defense forces have blown up a bridge.

Source: UP’s contacts in the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Ukrainians marked the second anniversary of the ‘Ilovaisk tragedy’ on Sofiyska Ploshcha in Kyiv, the event was attended by over a hundred mothers and widows of the killed servicemen, volunteer fighters, and activists.

The founder of information agency ‘Novy Region’ Alexander Shchetinin was found dead in Kyiv on the night of August 27. The press service of the Kyiv Office of the National Police reports that the people who discovered his body contacted the police at about midnight.

Pechersk District Court of Kyiv has allowed investigators to access the safe-deposit box of Pavel Sheremet, journalist of Ukrayinska Pravda who was killed by a car bomb in Kyiv on July, 20, 2016. The court order was published in the Unified State Register of Court Decisions

During the night of August 22 unknown individuals logged part of the Bychok forest reserve, which is part of Holosiivskyi National Park. Activist Mykhailo Pohrebyskyi reported on Facebook

Asphalt concrete pavement on the roads where a military parade rehearsal is taking place has been massively destroyed, Kyivavtodor [Ed.: the municipal company dealing with roads in Kyiv] claimed on Friday, August 19.

The family of judge of Kyiv Administrative Court of Appeals Yaroslav Mamchur owns a luxury house and apartment in Kyiv worth ₴35 million ($1.4 million) in total.

During the weekends, holidays and days off related to religious holidays, traffic on Sahaydachnoho Street in Kyiv will be restricted between 12pm and 10pm, according to an order issued by the Kyiv City Administration.