Maidan Nezalezhnosti, Khreschatyk metro stations in Kyiv closed again, this time over mass protests

Entrances and exists of the Maidan Nezalezhnosti and Khreschatyk metro stations in Kyiv are closed and the stations are being used for transfer only, the Kyiv Metro Web site reports.

"Entrances and exits of the Maidan Nezalezhnosti and Khreschatyk metro stations are closed today, on December 11, 2013, because of mass events, and the stations are being used for transfer from one [metro] line to another," says the report posted on Wednesday morning.

In the previous days the authorities closed the Maidan Nezalezhnosti, Khreschatyk and Teatralna metro stations in the center of Kyiv because of the alleged bomb threats. All the bomb threats appeared to be false.