Paul Goble
Staunton, May 22 – Since Putin launched his expanded war in Ukraine in February 2022 and even since Ukraine began to attack Russian cities with drones, only 25 federal subjects of the Russian Federation have released information about the location of bomb shelters – and independent analysts say two-thirds of those identified are in poor condition.
According to Novaya Gazeta Europe, three regions released information on the location of bomb shelters in 2022, five more did so in 2023, five in 2024, three in 2025, and seven so far this year (/novayagazeta.eu/articles/2026/05/22/za-chetyre-goda-voiny-tolko-25-regionov-rossii-raskryli-adresa-bomboubezhishch-podschitala-novaia-evropa-news).
Elsewhere, information about where bomb shelters are located remains classified, even though Ukrainian drones have reached far more federal subjects than the 25 that have identified where such facilities are located but at least in part because at least two-thirds of the shelters are unfit for use.
In June of last year, Moscow said that a map of all shelters would be posted on the State Services portal by December 2025; but that hasn’t happened; and many Russians not surprisingly are outraged by this all-too-obvious evidence that the powers that be in the Putin regime don’t care nearly as much about the population’s safety as they routinely claim to be.
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