Mayor Vitali Klitschko Interview: Huge Battles Still Anticipated, Nobody is Safe, Risk of Dying Still High in Kyiv, Displaced Citizens Cannot Attempt To Return Home Yet
By Robert Brizel, Head Real Combat Media Boxing Correspondent
Kyiv, Ukraine (April 9th, 2022)– In an attempt to allow for some normalcy and comradery with compassion, the alcohol ban has partially been lifted in Kyiv for local shops, stores, bars and restaurants still relatively in one piece between 11:00 A.M. and 4:00 P.M. daily. However, Kyiv Mayor Dr. Vitali Klitschko, the former world heavyweight champion, addressing Sky News in Kyiv on the front in a new interview, warns those Kyiv residents currently out of the geographic zone and area of Kyiv, who are desperately seeking to return home, absolutely to NOT attempt to return, as the chance of dying inside Kyiv and the areas surrounding Kyiv remains high.
Vitali, a former world heavyweight boxing champion, said in days and weeks yet to come, he still expects confrontational huge battles anytime soon in a number of nearby area satellite towns and on the outskirts of the city, which Russian forces have repeatedly tried but have continued to fail in their attempts to encircle, attack militarily and capture Kyiv.
Given the millions of displaced refugees, including over two million Kyiv areas citizens and residents seeking to return home from Hungary, Romania, Poland, Moldova, Transnistria, and surrounding countries and territories, according to Mayor Klitschko, “The risk of dying is (remains) pretty high (when attempting to return home by foot and vehicles), and that’s why my advice to anyone who wants to come back is please (don’t, wait for now, do not attempt to return to Kyiv or Eastern Ukraine yet), take a little bit more time,” he said.
Russian Special Forces Military Operations have continued attacks around Kyiv and the encircled city of Chernihiv, 100 miles to the north, despite claims from the Kremlin Russian Special Forces had fully withdrawn from the Eastern front area out of respect for ongoing peace talks. Over two million people, representing half of the city of Kyiv’s population, as well as additional residents of the Kyiv outskirts and surrounding towns, villages and suburbs, fled the Kyiv region in the opening weeks of the conflict, as Russian troops made their way to its northeastern edge with the intention of storming the capital.
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