Kyiv metro stations to be used as air raid shelters; Russians breach area near Chernobyl

Published February 24, 2022 10:58pm
Updated February 24, 2022 11:52pm

A woman and her child walk with a suitcase at a metro station in central Kyiv in the morning on February 24, 2022 as air raid sirens rang out in the capital of Ukraine and as cities across the country were hit with what Ukrainian officials said were Russian missile strikes and artillery. Daniel Leal/ AFP

KYIV — The mayor of Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, said four metro stations in the city would be used as air raid shelters, as Russia's invasion continued.

Kyiv mayor Vitaly Klitschko said that the stations do not have trains running so they could be used as bomb shelters.

The former world heavyweight boxing champion also ordered a curfew from 10:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. local time. and that public transport would stop working during that period.

The metro stations serving as bomb shelters would remain open throughout, he added.

Russian troops from the direction of Belarus entered an area near the former nuclear power plant Chernobyl, an adviser to Ukraine's interior minister said, while the local Ukrainian leadership in the Donetsk region said Russian forces had hit a hospital there, killing four people. — Reuters

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