Business Update: Kyiv to lift more lockdown restrictions, railway ticket offices open


A woman rests at the pedestrian bridge near the Volodymyr’s Hill in downtown Kyiv on May 26, 2020.

The Ukrainian capital Kyiv is to open hotels, shopping and leisure centers on May 30. Shopping and entertainment centers in Kyiv will start operating on Saturday, but without the operation of entertainment zones and in compliance with sanitary standards and regulations, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko has said, as reported by Ukrainian language media.

Klitschko said: “Friends, I want to inform you that today the City Emergency Commission has decided to open shopping and entertainment centers in the capital (without the work of entertainment zones). Shopping centers in Kyiv, with the observance of sanitary norms and regulations, should be opened from Saturday, May 30,” he said at an online briefing on Wednesday.