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Love Public Transit
Rei Carl Samuelsson Saito
The Kyiv Metro: The World's Biggest Bomb Shelter
3 minutes Posted Mar 1, 2022 at 12:13 am.
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On Thursday Feb. 24, Kyiv’s mayor, Vitali Klitschko, imposed a curfew and ordered all public transit to be halted so that the metro stations could be used as bomb shelters against the incoming air raids.

Turns out that Kyiv’s metro system was built to serve this very purpose…



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