President Putin answered 33 questions by Ukrainian citizens.
The programme “Vladimir Putin. Live broadcast” was shown on Channel One of Ukrainian television (UT-1), and the channels “1+1” and “Inter” at 8 p.m. Kiev time for about an hour.
Over 60,000 telephone calls and questions to the Russian President went to a special call centre before the broadcast began. Mr Putin was asked over 2,000 addition questions through the programme website.
At the beginning of the broadcast, there were around 25 calls a minute. By the middle of the interview, this figure increased to 520 calls a minute.
Some of the questions were given to the Russian President by television hosts, while others were heard live from the call centre. In all, Mr Putin was asked 80,000 questions.