Terrible condition and 93% violations: inspection of shelters in “Nasha Sprava”

Journalist Mariya Hural in a new episode of the investigative journalism project “Nasha Sprava” will report on how accessible and usable civil defense shelters are in Ukraine. The focus is on data from 19 regions, the results of inspections in Odesa, Kharkiv, and Lviv, and a re-examination of Kyiv shelters together with representatives of the Ombudsman’s Office.

The journalist will check whether the declared capacity of the shelters matches reality, whether people can reach them during an air raid alert, and what changes after official inspections and the recommendations given.

Watch this live on “Nasha Sprava.”

We wrote that the capital expects to begin installing mobile shelters in 2027. According to Kyiv City Council deputy Lyudmyla Kovalevska, districts will not have time this year to implement the project, so after the budget process is complete they must determine locations and allocate the necessary funding.

Novyny.LIVE reported that construction of dozens of shelters is underway across various districts in the Kyiv region. KOVA head Tymur Tkachenko emphasized the need to accelerate the work and said he plans to personally inspect problematic sites and consider the situation of each one separately.