It's just one of the hundreds of shelters city officials are inspecting in case the simmering conflict in Eastern Ukraine boils over into a full-scale Russian invasion. U.S. and Russian negotiators met in Geneva Monday, and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg is set to meet with Russian officials Wednesday in Brussels. Inside one of the Cold War era bomb shelters in Kyiv being prepared for possible use again. "Ukraine now, it's not the Ukraine of six or seven years ago … we have a strong army now." A war between Ukrainian forces and Russia-backed separatists in Eastern Ukraine has been grinding on since 2014, killing an estimated 14,000 people.

Source: CBC News January 12, 2022 20:07 UTC