A new curfew will be introduced from Monday evening to Wednesday morning in Kyiv.
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko announced that a new curfew would be introduced in the Ukrainian capital from Monday evening until Wednesday morning.
“It will start today at 8 p.m. (6 p.m. GMT) and last until 7 a.m. (5 a.m. GMT) on March 23,” the former world boxing champion wrote on his Telegram channel.
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“Shops, pharmacies, gas stations, establishments will not be open tomorrow,” he said. “I ask everyone to stay at home or in shelters when the sirens sound.”
Several curfews have already been observed in the capital, which Russian troops are still trying to surround. The latest lasted 35 hours last week, from Tuesday evening to Thursday morning.
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“Air pollution is observed”
In the night from Sunday to Monday, a bombardment hit a shopping center in the northwest of the capital, killing at least eight people, confirmed Vitali Klitschko.
According to Klitschko, six residential buildings, two schools and two nurseries near the shopping center were also damaged.
“Because of the fires, after air strikes in the capital and the region, air pollution is observed,” he also said, calling on residents not to open windows and to wear a mask. FFP2 on the way out to protect the lungs.
The Ukrainian capital has already been emptied of at least half of its 3.5 million inhabitants since the start of the Russian invasion on February 24.
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