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Kyiv police continue to receive complaints from citizens about the protests conducted in central Kyiv, the Ukrainian Interior Ministry's public security department said in a statement published on the ministry's website on Wednesday. 

“In the past 24 hours, the Kyiv Shevchenko district department registered 17 complaints about illegal actions by protesters. People are complaining that they can’t walk on the Maidan [Nezalezhnosti, or Independence Square in Kyiv’s central part] and Khreschatyk Street normally,” the report says.

The police said cases of the infliction of bodily injuries, robbery, and theft have also been registered. “On December 31, a volunteer from a charity foundation contacted the police saying protesters who are currently working as security guards in the House of Trade Unions had taken her personal things and boxes with charity donations,” the report says.

Every such report is investigated, the police said.

At the same time, major law infractions weren’t recorded during the New Year celebrations, the Interior Ministry stated.

The Interior Ministry announced on its website that 730,700 people celebrated the New Year publicly at 1,200 public events and were policed by 12,600 law enforcement personnel. 

Some 200,000 Ukrainians danced and sang their way into the New Year during a mass rally on Kyiv’s Independence Square, marking a celebratory start to 2014.