Never again should we see a repeat of the situation that occurred last night in Kyiv.”

Zelensky, in his nightly video message, said shelters “must be kept accessible. Local media said prosecutors searched city administration offices as part of the investigation.

The case prompted calls for residents to check shelters and report safety violations. “The entrance was closed, there were already maybe five to 10 women with children. My wife took our daughter and they ran to the entrance here,” local resident Yaroslav Ryabchuk told Reuters in the Desnyanskyi district. Residents said people were unable to enter the shelter because it was closed. “A rocket fragment fell near the entrance to the clinic four minutes after the air alert was announced. “Three people, one of them a child, died near the clinic last night,” Klitschko said.

Police opened a criminal investigation into the three deaths near a medical clinic in the Desnyanskyi district of Kyiv after the 18th attack on the capital since the start of May. His comments appeared aimed at Kyiv city authorities and Mayor Vitali Klitschko, with whom he has periodically clashed during the war. President Volodymyr Zelensky expressed frustration at the miscue and said if local officials were unable to provide protection, they could be prosecuted. KYIV: A nine-year-old Ukrainian girl, her mother and another woman were killed in a Russian missile strike on Kyiv on Thursday after the air raid shelter they rushed to failed to open, witnesses said.

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