The mayor of Kyiv, Vitaly Klitschko, estimated today (Thursday) in an interview on Ukrainian television that half of the city’s population has fled from it since the beginning of the fighting in Ukraine. “Slightly less than two million people remained in the city. Kyiv became a fortress. “Every street, every building – has become a fortress,” he said.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) estimates that more than 2.3 million people have fled Ukraine so far.
The American news site Politico reported today from sources that former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder was scheduled to meet today with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow. The two discuss stopping the war in Ukraine. Schroeder is considered close to Putin, who was appointed by him after his resignation as chancellor to the board of directors of the state-owned Russian gas giant Gazprom.
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