As a result of the incident, traffic on the blue branch between the Petrovka and Taras Shevchenko stations stopped traffic for an indefinite period. According to the police officer who was on duty at the metro station "Taras Shevchenko", at the moment the trains run from the metro station "Obolon" to "Heroes of the Dnieper" and from the "Kontraktova Square" to "Teremkov".

The metro station "Taras Shevchenko" is closed to the entrance for passengers. There is posted a sign "closed for technical reasons". In turn, the official page of the Kiev Metro in the social network reports that the movement is carried out on a blue branch of the "Heroes of the Dnieper - Maydan Nezalezhnosti" and "Petrovka" - "Teremki".

On the stretch of "Kontraktova Square" - "Taras Shevchenko" was detected smoke.

The entrance is also closed metro stations "Kontraktova Square", "Obolon" and "Postal Square".

Recall, as reported URA-Inform, in London, urgently evacuated people from the metro station Oxford Circus. Here on Friday morning, August 11, in one of the train cars smoke occurred. As reported by The Telegraph, at present the Bakerloo metro line is stopped after seeing smoke clouds that came from one of the trains.