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As of 23 June 2024, Klitschko is the longest-serving Mayor of Kyiv since Ukraine gained its independence in 1991, having served for over 10 years, and the only person to have won three direct democratic Kyiv mayoral elections.
Klitschko was sworn in as mayor on 5 June 2014. [1] [16] The 2015 Kyiv local election (including mayoral elections) took place on 25 October 2015. [17] A second round of mayoral elections was held on 15 November 2015 between Klitschko and Boryslav Bereza after incumbent Mayor Klitschko scored 40.5% of the vote and Bereza 8.8% in the first round.
He is the younger brother of former WBC, WBO, and Ring magazine heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko, the current Mayor of Kyiv. [43] Klitschko's paternal grandmother was Jewish. [44] The Klitschko brothers lived as children in Czechoslovakia from 1980 to 1985, where their father was stationed with the Soviet occupation forces.
KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine's government reprimanded Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko on Tuesday after criticism of city officials over the state of bomb shelters following the deaths of three people ...
BUCHA, Ukraine (Reuters) - As Russian troops approached Dniprorudne in their February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, the city's long-term mayor Yevhen Matvieiev could have fled to safety.
Vitali Klitschko, the mayor of Kyiv, Ukraine, said he’s willing to sacrifice his life for the war-torn country as he revealed the emotional toll Russia’s onslaught has left on him, warning the ...
Leonid Kosakivsky, 1994-1998 (head of city council, in 1997-1998 - mayor) Oleksandr Omelchenko, 1998-2006 (head of city council in 1998-1999, mayor since 1999) Leonid Chernovetskyi, 2006-2012; Halyna Hereha, 2012-2014 (acting) Vitali Klitschko, 2014-
In an interview with The Associated Press on Sunday, after a grueling night of Russian attacks on the outskirts of the city, mayor Vitali Klitschko was silent for several seconds when asked if ...