{"id":1336702,"date":"2022-02-24T05:02:25","date_gmt":"2022-02-24T10:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1336702"},"modified":"2022-02-24T10:07:49","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T15:07:49","slug":"residents-in-western-ukraine-sought-shelter-underground-when-russia-invaded-deputy-mayor-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/residents-in-western-ukraine-sought-shelter-underground-when-russia-invaded-deputy-mayor-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Residents In Western Ukraine Sought Shelter Underground When Russia Invaded, Deputy Mayor Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fresidents-in-western-ukraine-sought-shelter-underground-when-russia-invaded-deputy-mayor-says%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1336702&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1238726156.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Residents in Lviv, Ukraine, on the western side of the country, sought shelter underground when Russia began its invasion into eastern parts of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Lviv Deputy Mayor Andriy Moskalenko <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/europe\/live-news\/ukraine-russia-news-02-24-22-intl\/index.html\">told<\/a> CNN that Ukraine\u2019s west side isn\u2019t taking Russia\u2019s threat lightly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Lviv, we had this morning\u00a0sirens.\u00a0And so it was a sign for people\u00a0to move to underground places.\u00a0It was a potential threat,\u201d Moskalenko told the network. He also said there had been no explosions so far.<\/p>\n<p>CNN further reported that Lviv residents formed lines at banks and ATMs to withdraw money in order to be prepared if Russia travels to their side of the country. Moskalenko also told the network that school has been moved online to allow students to stay at home, but other than that, the city is operating as usual.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now, the city works as usual.\u00a0We have water supply, heat supply, we have transport and banks and\u00a0other institutions at work.\u00a0We, together with state\u00a0security service, the administration,\u00a0with police, manage our work. So we have come to headquarters to\u00a0provide services for our\u00a0residents,\u201d Moskalenko said.<\/p>\n<p>Lviv\u2019s response comes after Russia began a full-scale invasion into Ukraine Thursday morning. As The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-russia-begins-full-scale-invasion-into-ukraine-putin-confirms-military-operation-underway\">reported<\/a>, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced in a speech early Thursday morning that a \u201cspecial\u00a0military operation\u201d was beginning to demilitarize Ukraine. Putin also called on Ukrainian soldiers to put down their weapons and go home. Further, Putin appeared to threaten NATO, the U.S., and anyone else who may come to Ukraine\u2019s aid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA couple of words for those who would be tempted to intervene, Russia will respond immediately and you will have consequences that you never have had before in your history,\u201d Putin said.<\/p>\n<p>It was not just Lviv that saw residents seeking shelter underground. Families and their pets in Kharkiv crowded into a subway station that CNN reported is currently serving as a bomb shelter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just\u00a0absolutely surreal.\u00a0Yesterday, this would have been\u00a0full of commuters making their\u00a0way back and forth to work.\u00a0Today, it has become an\u00a0impromptu bomb shelter,\u201d CNN\u2019s chief international correspondent Clarissa Ward reported from Kharkiv.<\/p>\n<p>Ward added that she and her team heard a \u201cseries of thuds\u201d while they were outside the station.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople start[ed] to pour in here \u2026 These people are frightened.\u00a0They\u2019re confused.\u00a0They are desperately uncertain about what\u00a0they\u2019re supposed to do, how long\u00a0they can take shelter here,\u00a0where they go from here,\u201d Ward reported.<\/p>\n<p>The people of Kharkiv have much to fear after reports that an apartment complex was hit as part of Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine. The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/apartment-complex-hit-during-russian-attack-on-ukraine\">reported<\/a> that freelance journalist Justin Yau said \u201cAn apartment complex in [Chuhuiv] is devastated by bombardment, south of Kharkiv. Untold number of casualties.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire also noted that Getty Images published images of firefighters extinguishing flames with the caption: \u201cUkrainian firefighters try to extinguish a fire after an airstrike hit an apartment complex in Chuhuiv, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine on February 24, 2022.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents in Lviv, Ukraine, on the western side of the country, sought shelter underground when Russia began its invasion into eastern parts of the country.Lviv Deputy Mayor Andriy Moskalenko told<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1336702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1336702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1336702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1336702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1336702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}