An employee cleans inside the Baluvana Galya restaurant in Kyiv on June 4, 2020. The government announced that indoor restaurants will be allowed to reopen under the next stage of easing COVID-19 quarantine restrictions starting on June 5. But on the morning of June 5, national and local authorities said that this will not happen for Kyiv because it did not meet certain requirements.

Anyone could have a meal at their favorite indoor restaurant in Kyiv on June 5, but only for a few short hours in the morning.

Following the government’s June 3 announcement that it would allow them to reopen starting June 5, many Kyiv restaurants opened their indoor premises.

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