Kyiv Mayor Vitalii Klitschko stated that Russia remains focused on capturing Kyiv, calling it the aggressor's target and the heart/capital of Ukraine.
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Kyiv was and remains the aggressor's target. Kyiv is the heart. Kyiv is the capital.
The city’s defence is currently way better than a month ago, than six months ago, and definitely than a year ago.
A more detailed defence plan has been devised to protect Kyiv from aggression.
We currently have a control system, a network of checkpoints, modern weapons, and our Armed Forces are a lot stronger now than they were a year ago.
Stoltenberg met Zelensky in Kyiv and said 'Ukraine’s rightful place is in NATO'.
A key priority for the future was national-level monitoring to get a stronger understanding of the educational losses of each Ukrainian child
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