War in Ukraine: Kyiv residents decry shortage of bomb shelters

Home Shows Focus To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Cover image: FOCUS © FRANCE 24 05:56 Issued on: 15/10/2026 - 11:50 From the show Kyiv's mayor, Vitaly Klitschko, has advised those residents who can "temporarily relocate" for the winter to do so. That advice has been met with derision at best from many residents, who say his administration is responsible for failing to better prepare the Ukrainian capital for Russian attacks. In particular, they complain of a severe shortage of adequate bomb shelters. Kyiv's city council has promised to build several new shelters, refurbish others and install surface-level bunkers at bus stops. But Klitschko's critics say it's too little, too late. Our correspondent Gulliver Cragg reports.