KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s government reprimanded Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko on Tuesday after criticism of city officials over the state of bomb shelters following the deaths of three people locked out on the street during a Russian air raid.
The government said it had dismissed the heads of two districts under the Kyiv military administration, and two acting heads of districts.
It was not immediately clear whether Klitschko, a former boxer, would face any further action.
Uncertainty about his political future grew after President Volodymyr Zelenskiy criticised city officials over the June 1 incident, in which two women and a girl were killed by falling debris after rushing to a Kyiv shelter and finding it shut.
Zelenskiy ordered an audit of all bomb shelters after the three deaths and said personnel changes would be made. The audit found only 15% of Kyiv’s 4,655 bomb shelters were suitable and only 44% were freely accessible.
(Reporting by Anna Pruchnicka and Tom Balmforth, Editing by Timothy Heritage)
