The Kyiv city council plans to terminate the land lease agreement with the Russian Embassy amid Moscow's invasion of Ukraine. "I think the decision will be unanimous here. We will terminate the lease agreement and request the government return the property of the [Russian] diplomatic mission...to Ukrainian state ownership," Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on April 20. The council also plans to terminate the lease agreements with Russia in Kyiv's St. Volodymyr Descent area to prevent construction work there that may distort slopes that are part of the buffer zone of St. Sophia Cathedral.
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