President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy for the first time demonstrated the underground bunker under the Presidential Office on Bankova Street, from which he worked in the first days of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The head of state published footage from the shelter in a video message on the occasion of the fourth anniversary of the start of the great war.
According to Zelensky, it was in this room that key decisions were made at the start of the invasion, and “hundreds of people” were inside. Previously, the bunker was not shown for security reasons, but now it is empty.
“This office, this small room in the bunker on Bankova Street, was where I had my first conversations with world leaders at the beginning of the war. I spoke with President Biden here, and it was here that I heard: ‘Vladimir, there is a threat, you need to leave Ukraine urgently. We are ready to help with this.’” And I replied that I needed a weapon, not a taxi,” Zelenskyy said.
He noted that he worked in an underground shelter, and then went upstairs to record appeals to Ukrainians.
“Here was our team, the government, daily meetings with the military, calls, finding solutions — everything necessary for Ukraine to survive. We had to deliver weapons. We delivered medicine, food to cities blocked by the enemy. So that there would be life, for which Ukraine is fighting so desperately.” “both official and non-literary language sounded.” “And, to be honest, well, it happened differently, and here both official and non-literary language sounded, because every aid package, every sanctions against Russia, every shipment of weapons — all this had to be really gnawed away. To gnaw away faith in Ukraine. To make the world turn on,” the President said. — said.
During his address, Volodymyr Zelenskyy walked through the corridors of the shelter, which is divided into separate sectors for the Office of the President, the leadership of the Cabinet of Ministers, and the Verkhovna Rada apparatus.
