Mayor Klitschko warns of huge Putin plan - “The heart of the country”. “If Putin makes a decision like that, then it will be a bloody decision,” says former boxing champion and mayor of Kiev.
In February and March 2022, invasion troops from Kremlin ruler Vladimir Putin from Russia tried in vain to penetrate the city with its around 2.8 million inhabitants from the north and northeast. In the Middle Ages, Kiev was the center of power of the first Russian empire, Kievan Rus.