Zelenskiy orders audit of air raid shelters after deaths, condemns negligence

KYIV — President Volodymyr Zelenskiy ordered an audit of all Ukrainian air raid shelters on Friday as a rift widened with Kyiv’s mayor after the deaths of three people locked out on the street during a Russian attack.

A nine-year-old girl, her mother, and another woman were killed by falling debris after rushing to a Kyiv shelter on Thursday and finding it was shut.

“There can be no excuses for this level of negligence in the city,” Zelenskiy said in an evening video address, adding he had told the strategic industries minister and the interior minister to conduct a “full audit of bomb shelters.”

Police have detained four people in an investigation into the deaths. Three o…

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