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UNIAN: Activists block traffic of Protasiv Yar, protesting against cutting trees

By UNIAN.

Published June 25, 2019. Updated June 25 at 9:32 am

The municipal service workers remove fallen chestnut trees from Kyiv's main Khreshchatyk Street following a heavy storm in the city on Aug. 16, 2018.

Photo by AFP

Activists have blocked Protasiv Yar Street in Kyiv in protest against cutting trees in an urban forest where a shopping and office center is planned to be built.

Local residents and activists demolished the fence around the construction site and two huts built by a construction firm for accommodation for the guards of the site in the urban forest between Protasiv Yar Street and Amosova Street, according to an UNIAN correspondent.