This house has survived two world wars. It is located in the city center of Lviv in western Ukraine. When Russia invaded Ukraine, residents of one crab repaired a bomb shelter in the basement.
‘s graph Benjamin Suomela visited the basement of the house and scanned the space with a smartphone into a three-dimensional model. The environment looks a bit grainy in the model. Scan interference has also been removed from the implementation, but none of the basement status has been changed.
Step inside and experience what it’s like to be escaping Russian missiles underground. You can scroll through the 3D model by scrolling down the image.
In Ukrainian cities occupied by Russian forces, basements have also acted as hiding places from the terror of Russian soldiers.
In the Kiev region, for example, in Bocha, people remained underground for weeks. Soldiers raped and killed civilians. There was a shortage of food and water for the hiding Ukrainians.
Eyewitnesses have said that Russian soldiers shot people moving outside. It was dangerous to replenish food and drink stocks.
In Lviv, the situation is currently calm, but there are almost daily air alerts. Russian missiles have also hit the city in May.
In addition to sirens, the air alarm can be reported via the phone. Already more than two million Ukrainians have downloaded a phone application that reports an air alarm in their area.
Many refugees from eastern and southern Ukraine have come to Lviv. They have experienced the horrors of war. Five of the inhabitants of this crab have fled the rest of Ukraine. They also have a place in the basement during an air alarm.
Loudspeakers and the phone app will notify you when the danger of an air strike is over. It means that Ukraine’s defense has repelled the attack or that a missile has hit somewhere in Ukraine.
Ukrainian authorities may not tell you if a missile hits a military target so that the Russian military does not receive information about a successful attack. Information about dead civilians, on the other hand, is usually reported to the public.
According to UN statistics, almost 3,800 civilians have died in the war in Ukraine. More than 200 of the dead are children. The actual number of victims is multiple, as no precise information is available on the areas occupied by Russia.