
In Kiev, the traffic in Khreshchatyk was completely restored, UNIAN reports . Cars can also move along all adjacent streets, except for institute, where the barricades have not yet been dismantled.
There are only two tents left on the Square itself. This is a mobilization tent of the National Guard and a tent near the Maidan press center.
Also on the Maidan there remains a half -divided scene, near which there are about 20 people. They spent the night here. The main post office has a piano, which is played by an activist.
About 40 activists gathered at the building of the Kiev administration, the Maidan press center reports . They demand to put a tent on the Maidan to control the fulfillment of the promised reforms.
At the weekend, thousands of Kyivans took part in a subbotnik on the cleaning of the square. About 500 utilities officers also worked. At the removal of the garbage, 50 dump trucks and 12 loaders worked. "Supporters of the Maidan" tried to interfere with the scene. There were "minor clashes." Also on Sunday the next veche was held, but it was a few.
Part of the Institutskaya Street, from the Maidan of Nebulia to the Khreshchatik metro station, will remain closed for traffic. This was stated by the mayor of Kyiv Vitaly Klitschko. According to him, the "Heavenly Hundred" memorial will be opened here.
On August 7, Kiev communal workers asked the inhabitants of the Maidan to make out the tents installed on the roadway in the city center. However, representatives of the so -called "self -defense of the Maidan" said they would not do this. A clash occurred between the police, public utilities and the inhabitants of the Maidan.
Protesters threw utility workers and fighters of the Kyiv-1 battalion with paving stones and set fire to tires. Several police officers were injured. However, part of the barricades was dismantled.
On August 8, the Council of Sotnikov Maidan decided to free Khreshchatyk Street and make it open for traffic. However, the Council refused to remove tents from the square.
The tent town in the center of Kyiv was defeated in November 2013 by supporters of European integration of the country. Subsequently, after the victory of Euromaidan and the overthrow of President Viktor Yanukovych, some of the activists remained in the square. The city authorities repeatedly called on the protesters to free the city center to restore traffic along the main highways, but activists ignored these requirements.
On July 9, with a request to free the Maidan from the activists, the Prosecutor General of Ukraine Vitaly Yarem, who were there for more than six months of activists . At the same time, he threatened those protesters who refuse to submit to criminal prosecution. On July 10, the prosecutor of Kyiv Sergey Yuldashev demanded that the city authorities immediately begin the process of liberation of the Maidan from the protesters. Yuldashev noted that the criminal situation in the center of Kyiv remains "extremely tense." According to him, only in April there were four killings and over ten robberies.
On July 14, the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Arsen Avakov said that the Maidan in its current form is the FSB project and marginal parties. "What is now happening on the Maidan is a discredit of its meaning, it is the sale of Ukraine in retail. The concentration of incomprehensible, unsympathetic, inveterate people on the main square of the country is the project of the Russian FSB of Russia and the marginal parties that have gone the past," Avakov said.