Lena Danilova, 39, walks with her daughter Kira, 2, near her house in Podolskyi neighborhood, Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, March 25, 2022.
Highlights
- It was announced that Ukraine's capital Kyiv will see a 35-hour curfew
- However, the curfew was later called off.
- The curfew was supposed to be lifted on Monday morning.
Amid the ongoing tensions in Ukraine, it was announced that Ukraine's capital Kyiv will see a 35-hour curfew starting Saturday evening. However, the curfew was later called off.
The curfew was supposed to be lifted on Monday morning, the authorities informed, reported news agency AP. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said the curfew will run from 8 pm local time on Saturday to 7 am on Monday, with local residents allowed to leave their homes only to get to a bomb shelter.
Klitschko said that shops, pharmacies, gas stations, and public transport will not be operating during the curfew.
Meanwhile, the governor of the Kyiv region says that Russian forces have entered the city of Slavutych and seized a hospital there. The governor said that residents of Slavutych took to the streets with Ukrainian flags to protest the Russian invasion.
Slavutych is located north of Kyiv and west of Chernihiv, outside the exclusion zone that was established around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant after the 1986 disaster. It is home to workers at the Chernobyl site.
