First look: Zelenskyy unveils hidden bunker beneath presidential office, video
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy (photo: video screenshot)
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy, for the first time, showed a bunker beneath the Presidential Office building on Bankova Street in Kyiv and his working office, reports the head of state.
During his address on the fourth anniversary of the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Zelenskyy showed the bunker where he spent the first months of the full-scale invasion.
"This office, this small room in the bunker on Bankova Street — this is where I held my first conversations with world leaders at the start of the war. Here, I spoke with the President (former US President Joe Biden — ed.) Biden, and it was right here that I heard: 'Volodymyr, there is a threat, you need to leave Ukraine urgently. We are ready to help with that.' And here I replied that I need ammunition, not a ride," the president said.
In the published footage, he also walked through corridors decorated with patriotic posters.
Today marks exactly four years since Putin started his three-day push to take Kyiv. And that says a great deal about our resistance, about how Ukraine has fought all this time. Behind those words stand millions of our people, immense courage, incredibly hard work, endurance, and… pic.twitter.com/9qiqACurhx
— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) February 24, 2026
What is known about the Office of the President building
The Office of the President of Ukraine is located at 11 Bankova Street. This building was constructed in 1936–1939 on the foundation of a building from the 1870s.
Initially, it housed the headquarters of the Kyiv Special Military District, and later — the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine.
The premises were built in the style of solemn Stalinist Empire. The building's style also combines elements of classical architecture and Ukrainian Baroque.
