Fast food chain McDonald's has reopened several stores in Kyiv for the first time since Russia began its invasion of Ukraine.

Three restaurants were opened in the country's capital on September 20 and footage shows delivery riders picking up their orders. The restaurants are currently open for delivery only.

Head of Corporate Communications at McDonald's Alesya Mudzhyri wrote on Facebook: "Seven more establishments in Kyiv will reopen in about a week, followed by the rest of the restaurants in the capital and in different cities in the west of the country."

Mudzhyri also mentioned there is an evacuation plan for staff and customers incase of air strikes.

All restaurants in the city are expected to resume full operations in October.

McDonald's reopened in Kiev.on September 20, McDelivery opened in three restaurants in Kyiv - on Bazhana Avenue, 3v, on the street. Grishka, 7, and on Gagarin Avenue, 2a. And in about a week, seven more establishments in Kyiv will resume work, and other restaurants will subsequently open in the capital and in various cities in the west of the country. On the right-bank part of Kyiv, delivery from McDonald's does not work.
As you know, McDonald's restaurants have not been operating in Ukraine since the first day of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation. Earlier, the company said that they would not open until the end of the war.