Beneath an administrative building in Kyiv, a concrete stairwell leads down to a thick metal door — the entrance to a bomb shelter from the Cold War era. It’s just one of the hundreds of shelters city officials are inspecting in case the simmering conflict in Eastern Ukraine boils over into a full-scale Russian invasion.
“Our goal is to have shelters for 100 per cent of our population,” said Nikolai Budnik, the manager of the city’s shelter system, as he gave CBC a tour on Monday of a bunker built in 1986.
Because of the recent escalation in tensions between Ukraine and Russia, he
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