Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko is still advising residents who have fled to a safer location to stay there, rather than return to Ukraine’s capital at present.

“We can’t 100% guarantee safety to everyone,” the mayor told BBC World.

Russian forces have moved away from Kyiv and refocused their attack on the east of the country, after being pushed back from areas around the capital earlier on in the invasion.

Klitschko said the city was “slowly returning to life” with cafes and bars reopening, but warned Kyiv remained “a target for Russian aggressors” – with air raid warnings still sounding and night-time curfews in place.

He calculated at least one million of Kyiv’s pre-war population had not yet come back to the city, and said Kyiv was “still empty”, with the country ravaged by war, damaged infrastructure and rising unemployment.