Bomb shelters in Lviv – how Mayor Sadovyi closes shelters

Following the recent tragedy in Kyiv, massive inspections of bomb shelters across the country have begun. However, it turned out that the city authorities of Lviv, instead of dealing with the issue of shelters, were simply closing them.

On the night of June 1, people standing in front of the closed doors of a shelter in Kyiv were killed by an enemy missile attack.

After that, inspections of the condition and accessibility of shelters were carried out across the country.

It turned out that every fourth shelter in Lviv is either closed or unsuitable for people to stay there.

The city authorities have demonstrated that they have completely removed themselves from the problem of civilian protection. That is, in the event of a missile attack, it will become an accomplice in the murder of civilians.

Of course, there were powerful storage facilities in Lviv. They were not checked by the commission, they are not on the official map, they will not save people’s lives. And all because the city authorities… wrote them off. According to the Lviv Media investigation, this happened from 2019 to 2021. The executive committee of the Lviv City Council, led by Mayor Andriy Sadovyi, deregistered 10 civil defense facilities. Some of them were then sold, others were built up with high-rise buildings.

In the sixties of the last century, the Lviv City Dairy Plant was built in Lviv at 8 Rudnenska Street. And in the 70s, an underground storage facility with three hundred seats of the third class. A third-class storage facility means that it must withstand an explosive wave that would destroy everything around it and reduce the radiation dose by two thousand times. The Soviet Union collapsed, and the dairy was privatized. The bomb shelter was destroyed with Sadovyi’s knowledge.

According to the Youcontrol analytical system, the owners of Lviv City Dairy Plant include Roman and Sofia Yeremeyev, children of the late MP Ihor Yeremeyev, who was a co-owner of the Continuum industrial group. The plant is being built by the well-known Lviv-based company Riel.

We move on to another bomb shelter written off by the city council at 116 Bohdana Khmelnytskoho Street. There is also a construction project by Riela. The Lviv Plant of Artificial Diamonds and Diamond Tools used to be here. In the seventies, a bomb shelter for six hundred people was built there. In April 2020, the executive committee decommissioned the bomb shelter. He either orders or advises the developer to arrange an underground parking lot with a radiation shelter function. As of now, it is not on the map of shelters in Lviv.

Another example of how the executive committee and its chairman, Andriy Sadovyi, acted criminally. Lvivprylad used to be located at 48 Stryiska Street. There were two large shelters designed for three thousand people at once.

In September 2020, the executive committee of the city council under the leadership of Mayor Andriy Sadovyi wrote off this shelter as well. The reason is the same: the technical impossibility and economic inexpediency of preserving the protective structure during new construction.

We have three stories about how the executive committee of the Lviv City Council under the leadership of Andriy Sadovyi wrote off Soviet storage facilities. All three cases are about former industrial enterprises that were converted into residential and office buildings. In one case, the city authorities obliged the developer to take care of security. In the other two, she just pretended.

In total, more than six thousand buildings in Lviv have the status of a shelter. The vast majority of them are just basements of residential buildings with a sign on them. A recent inspection showed that it is possible to actually take refuge in such “shelters” in three out of four cases. 27% are either locked or in such a state that it is not known where else is safer – in the basement or on the street.

A kind of lottery…