Ukraine tightens security around main streets of Kyiv

SECURITY measures were tightened around the main streets in Ukraine’s capital Kyiv as the Russia-Ukraine war entered its eighth day on Thursday , March 3. Around Maidan Nezalezhnosti, the iconic central Independence Square of Kyiv located on Khreshchatyk Street in the Shevchenko region, a number of armed soldiers were seen patrolling the makeshift checkpoints on the streets. Piles of sand, sandbag barricades used for blocking roads, wooden crates, and bricks piled high along with the Czech hedgehog tank barriers and concrete columns were placed on the main streets of Kyiv, a city of 3 million people, as part of the measures