General Nikolai Zhirnov has been appointed head of the Kiev military administration, said Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky.

" Therefore, I decided to appoint a professional military head of the Kiev military administration for the duration of the war in order to guarantee the defense of the city, to block the enemy’s approaches to our capital, so that the people of Kiev had everything they needed. The head of the military administration will be General Zhirnov Nikolay Nikolaevich,” the President said..

Zhirnov served as the commander of the Support Forces, organized the engineering support of the military operations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 2014-2015, and is now a state expert of the Military Security Service under the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine.

Recall, on February 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the start of a “special military operation” for the “demilitarization” and “denazification” of Ukraine, its “cleansing from the Nazis”.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation claims that it is delivering pinpoint strikes on military targets, but in fact Russia has unleashed a full-scale war in Ukraine, for the sixth day people have been forced to hide in bomb shelters, Russian shells are flying through the windows of residential buildings, hundreds of civilians have died, including small children. The Ukrainian army adequately rebuffs the enemy: hundreds of units of military equipment of the Russian Federation have already been destroyed on our soil, more than 5,000 Russian soldiers have died, more than 200 have been taken prisoner.

Democratic countries help Ukraine with weapons, in particular, the European Union, for the first time in history, promised to finance the purchase and supply of lethal weapons to a third country - Ukraine.