Kyiv (also Kiev) [a] is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2022, its population was 2,952,301, [2] making Kyiv the seventh-most populous city in Europe. [11] Kyiv is an important industrial, scientific, educational, and cultural center in Eastern Europe. It is home to many high-tech industries, higher education ...

2025年1月17日 · Russia attacked Ukraine’s capital with drones and ballistic missiles before dawn on Saturday, officials said, killing at least three people in central Kyiv as part of a broader assault that ...

2 天之前 · Kyiv, chief city and capital of Ukraine. A port on the Dnieper (Dnipro) River and a large railroad junction, it is a city with an ancient and proud history. As the centre of Kyivan (Kievan) Rus, the first eastern Slavic state, 1,000 years ago, it acquired the title “Mother of Rus Cities.”

3 天之前 · The mayor, Vitali Klitschko, who has had a tense relationship with President Volodymyr Zelensky, accused him of trying to usurp the powers of elected officials in the capital.

2025年1月26日 · One of Europe’s major cities, Kyiv established diplomatic relations with the Byzantine Empire, England, France, Sweden, and other countries. Travelers wrote of its population as numbering tens of thousands.

2025年1月18日 · Three people have been killed in a Russian air strike on Kyiv overnight, Ukrainian officials have said. Residents in the city first heard two loud explosions and only then the wail of the air raid ...

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2024年1月29日 · Kyiv is a city of creativity, determination, and courage. It has retained its will to live and love for more than 1500 years. Many have tried to destroy it, yet none have succeeded. Throughout the fifteen centuries of its history, Kyiv has suffered numerous hardships.

2025年1月23日 · Once more an independent Ukraine was declared in Kyiv, under the leadership of Symon Petlyura, but its brief and stormy history was a series of struggles between Ukrainian nationalist, anti-Bolshevik (White), and Soviet (Red) forces.

From 1934, Kiev was the capital of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. During World War II, the city suffered significant damage, but recovered, remaining the third largest city of the Soviet Union, to become, after independence in 1991, the capital of Ukraine.