There are not enough bomb shelters for everyone in Donetsk: there are many people, few shelters
Donetsk, June 03 (Navigator, Victoria Litovchenko) – No more than 20% of Donetsk residents will be able to take refuge in city bomb shelters in case of danger, many of which are in unusable condition.
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Donetsk mayor Alexander Lukyanchenko reported this.
“It is almost impossible to evacuate a million residents. Currently, the city is home to 270 thousand pensioners and 24 thousand preschool children. We do not have the conditions to evacuate such a number of people,” Ostrov quoted him as saying.
“Shelters are designed for only 15-20% of the population. The counting is ending now,” he said. “In Soviet times, during the Cold War, a shelter for one work shift at an enterprise was considered.”
“If this facility has not been used for several decades, then to bring it back in two days... I would be deceiving the population if I said that. Therefore this is not a method. There is only one method: everything must be done so that these shelters do not need to be used. And they should not be useful,” Lukyanchenko emphasized.
At the same time, the leaders of the “Donetsk People’s Republic” Vladimir Makovich and Roman Lyagin announced that an air raid warning had been declared on the territory of the DPR.
According to local residents, at the beginning of last week, information appeared in the entrances about where the nearest bomb shelters were located, often 5-6 km from their houses, so if necessary, it would be impossible to use them. Now these advertisements are removed from the entrances and replaced with new ones with different addresses or simply torn down, leaving no coordinates for the population where they can hide in the event of an attack.
As Navigator reported, residents of Slavyansk are getting used to “living” in shelters: previously they simply spent the night in cellars and bomb shelters, but now they are there during the day.
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