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
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
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."
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.
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.
Leyla Kondakova, a journalist at Delo.ua was attacked in the Podil district of Kyiv on Friday, July 29. The attack was reported by Kateryna Venzhyk, Editor of Delo.ua
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko is planning to ask the Prosecutor General’s Office to change the pretrial restrictive measure for the infamous developer Anatoliy Voytsekhovskyi, he said during the session of Kyiv City Council.
Two unknown men beat the chief of the business media outlet Business.Censor Serhii Holovniov on the night of July 25 in the Kyiv district of Podil, not stealing his belongings.
Kyiv law enforcement is investigating two bomb threats on the route of the ‘Cross Procession’ in Sviatoshyno district and in Boryspil city direction, the press service of the National Police in Kyiv reports.