Activists block traffic Near Kyiv protesting against cutting trees
26.06.2019 - 14:06
Several hundred protesters, including local residents, have blocked traffic. 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. Several hundred protesters, including local residents, have blocked traffic. 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.
allowed Only emergency vehicles, the 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
the construction firm had cut several dozen trees on the slope of Protasiv Yar in the past three days, being under guard . Activists hammered nails into trunks of the trees that have been left to make it impossible to further destroy the green zone.
Source: Ukraine in arabic
