The municipality of the city of Kiev has a unique legal status compared to the other administrative subdivisions of Ukraine. The most significant difference is that the city is subordinated directly to the national-level branches of the Government of Ukraine, skipping the provincial level authorities of Kiev Oblast (province). Additionally, the leading governmental position is held by the locally elected, rather than appointed, figure, and the municipal self-governance institutions have a higher than elsewhere in Ukraine latitude in the local affairs.
This unique standing of the city's institution of self-governance reflects the role of Kiev as the capital of Ukraine and is also based on historic reasons inherited from the city's administrative status within the Soviet Union where Kiev held the position of the City of the republican subordination.
Currently, the legal status and the local government of Kiev is regulated by the special provisions of the Constitution of Ukraine as well as a combination of Ukrainian laws, namely the Law on the capital of Ukraine - Hero City Kiev,

Local representation of the central government of Ukraine

Subdivisions of Kiev