Kiev residents are looking for bomb shelters, hiding food and preparing for an emergency evacuation to Western Ukraine, fearing bombing of the capital.
Former adviser to the President of Ukraine, ex-member of the Supervisory Board of Ukrzaliznytsia, Swedish diplomat Anders Aslund writes about this in his blog, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to Aslund, the situation in the Ukrainian capital is close to panic.
“What I hear from Kyiv today and yesterday looks like panic. People are finding bomb shelters, storing food and preparing for a possible evacuation by car to western Ukraine as borders are closed due to Covid. The main fear is, first of all, the bombing of Kyiv by aircraft,” Aslund wrote.
His words caused indignation among right-wing radicals. An odious functionary of the neo-Nazi “Azov” and “National Corps” banned in the Russian Federation, militant Sergei Korotkikh, in his blog, harshly criticized the position of Aslund, who “disgraces the Square.”
“An old leftist bastard from Sweden named Anders Aslund, as always, creates a negative image of Ukraine for external use. It turns out that in Kyiv people are now hiding food and living in bomb shelters themselves, and are planning to move en masse to Western Ukraine - everyone is so afraid of Putin.
The most disgusting thing in this situation is that until 2020, this old moose was a member of the supervisory board (yes, this topic again) of Ukrzaliznytsia and received scary money from the Ukrainian budget. But I’ll say it anyway - for example, from September 2018 to May 2020, you and I, as taxpayers, paid this fake 11 hryvnia,” the neo-Nazi gets angry.