Kyiv utility workers have removed 100 cars full of trash as part of an agreement between the city authorities and protestors over traffic resumption on Hrushevskoho Street, a spokesperson for the Kyiv City State Administration said on Monday.

"Work started yesterday at lunchtime and continued until 1 a.m. Around 30 pieces of equipment and dump trucks were involved. Utility workers cleared the street from soot, wheels, ice, and even washed it. In all over 100 cars full of trash have been removed. Hrushevsky Street is now clear for traffic. At the same time, a checkpoint and metal gates have been installed, which was one of the demands of the protestors at the talks," the statement said.

The administration deputy chief, Mykhailo Kostiuk, is currently continuing the talks with activists over the unblocking of Parkova Alley, the spokesperson said. The equipment and utility workers are ready, and if the negotiations are successful, they can start work straight away, Kostiuk said.

Meanwhile, the cordon around the government block in central Kyiv was loosened, though not removed entirely, by noon on Monday an Interfax-Ukraine correspondent said.

Several streets - Sadova, Shovkovychna, Hrushevskoho (on the crossing with Krepostny Lane and European Square) - remain cordoned by the Internal Troops.

The Party of Regions' supporters continue rallying outside the Verkhovna Rada building.

Two water canons mounted on a Kamaz vehicle, two APCs (armored personnel carriers) and Internal Troops buses remain just outside the Cabinet of Ministers building.

Several tents with Berkut special police officers remain in the area near the entrance to the National Art Museum.

No through traffic is possible yet on Hrushevskoho Street.

Protestors in the barricades are erecting an observation tower, reinforcing the metal gates, and putting the sand brought in earlier into sacks.

It was reported that the standoff between protestors and law enforcers on Hrushevsky Street began on January 19. The protestors used rocks, fireworks, and Molotov cocktails against law enforcement officers.

Stun grenades and water canons were used against the protestors.

A temporary truce was reached when the opposition and the authorities started talks on the resolution of the political crisis.

Meanwhile, a law extending amnesty to all arrested Ukrainian protestors was enacted on February 17.

The condition for the enactment of this law was the evacuation of the administrative buildings occupied earlier, including regional state administrations, local self-governments, the Kyiv City Administration and the unblocking of Hrushevsky Street in Kyiv.

These conditions were met by Sunday night, the Prosecutor General's Office said.