Same number of people live in Kyiv now as before February 24 – mayor Klitschko

Klitschko said this in an interview with the German Spiegel weekly. 

“We count how many cell phones are used. Before the war, there were 3.8 million people here, in March there were less than a million, in July 2-2.5 million, and now 3.6 million. 300,000 of them are registered internally displaced people from other regions of the country. The city is overcrowded,” the mayor said.

He himself admitted that he felt danger and was afraid that he would be abducted by enemy sabotage and intelligence groups, but he did not run away from the city.

Klitschko recalled that during the defense of Kyiv “there were several situations in which he barely survived“, suggesting that he would one day tell about them in an autobiographical book.