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There are no excuses for Kyiv’s shelters being too few, closed or inaccessible. This is what Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says after people died in the capital when a shelter was locked during a Russian attack.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy began his daily speech on Friday by saying that he had a meeting with the commander-in-chief’s staff and then discussed the capital Kiev’s shelter shortages, which he calls an urgent security issue.
During a Russian attack on Kiev on the night of Thursday, several people died. According to reports, they were hit by parts from downed robots when the shelter they sought turned out to be locked. According to Kyiv mayor Vitaly Klytchko, a police investigation has been launched into the incident.
President Zelenskyi has now ordered that all shelters in Kiev and also in the rest of the country be inspected.
He says that, despite what happened on Thursday, reports of shortages in shelters continue to come in from Kyiv residents. It is about locked shelters, shelters whose entrances are not accessible and in some parts of the city about there being no shelters at all.
– There are no excuses for the city’s carelessness, says Volodymyr Zelenskyy.