Kiev and the key cities around the capital are controlled by the Ukrainian army, and the occupiers' plot to seize them has been broken, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
"Kiev and the key cities around the capital are controlled by our army. The occupiers wanted to block the center of our state and put their puppets here as in Donetsk. We broke their plan. They didn't get any advantage over us," Zelensky said in an address to Ukrainians on Saturday.
