A multi-story home made of cast technology on a monolith construction site with reinforced concrete will withstand Shahid's impact and will look like a photo. 18 below.
Photo 18. Multi-story building in the Kiev territory of Poznaky 2 weeks after Shahid's direct hit. June/July 2025 [photo: own].
In the premises of these 5 floors, where the shock wave and the incendiary material entered, the interiors are completely ruined. In this peculiar case, there was no information about the victims. Most likely residents were not present at the time of the explosion.
The single-family building, regardless of the technology in which it is made, will endure far greater damage. He's just little immune. And if we add the fact that the attacker "planarily" Shahid performs an impact from above, flying a dive, that is, hits the roof of a single household building, it should be assumed that the floors straight below the roof are a death zone. Is it going to go deeper? Probably. Well, unless you have a minimum of 20 cm of poured concrete between the attic and the lower floors. It was fired, not a record.
All this doesn't look good. Is the basement a shelter from Shahid? Yeah. In most cases, Shahid's attacks are a good place to last without prejudice. Of course, a basement with no windows. It would be an inexhaustible failure if the lost Shahid fell in the yard a fewer meters from the basement window. Can you imagine what would happen in this basement?
But the basement gives no shelter from ballistics or maneuvering missiles. The brick, four-story building after gathering a ballistic rocket looks like a photograph 19 below.
Photo 19. The four-story building in the Kiev territory of Darnica after the direct impact of a ballistic missile. August 2025 [photo. own].
Ukrainian experience has shown many times that a direct hit with ballistics or a maneuvering rocket (they besides attack from the roof down quiking at the target) does not give any chance to last even a multi-storey building. Rockets are specified wipers of individual sections (stairways) from the top down. Is uncovering yourself in a basement of specified a erased staircase a chance of survival? It's so lame. And in this peculiar case, it's a nasty death by burial alive.
Everything I present so far looks bad and very bad. Well, in the event of a direct hit, chances are truly poor. But let's not despair. Let the statistic be a comfort. In Kiev, now at least 2 million people (maybe more) died in rocket attacks in 2024 between 200 and 300 people. Thus, the chance of specified death is about 1:10,000 to 1:6,000.
In the same 2024, 1,896 people died in transport accidents in Poland. The chance of dying in a communication accident in Poland in 2024 was 1:19 500. That is, in Kiev, 1 could be killed "only" twice as frequently as in Poland due to a communication accident. And in 2024 you walked the Polish streets without reasoning that you had a chance like 1 to 19 500 abrupt death in a communication accident? Sorry... You'll most likely think about it tomorrow.
It's the same way you live in attacked rockets and drones of the city or country. You know, you may be a victim, but after a cold calculation, you get this 1:10,000 per year chance and you start to respond to night alarms like in Figure 3 below.
Fig. 3. The reaction of the average Ukrainian to the night-time air alarm siren [source: Internet].
It is impossible to spend nights at a subway station twice or 3 times a week. It, if located deeper than 20 meters underground, provides almost 100% protection against any (except nuclear) means of aerial assault. surviving and working, you can't afford a fewer nights a week. They fly drones? They're flying. Okay, rockets. But next day is besides the day erstwhile the environment will require average activity from us. Having stayed overnight in a subway or underground parking lot (well, specified a shelter at a direct hit) can you function usually the next day? What about 3 nights a week?
Does that sound fatal? Yes. due to the fact that in war, if you don't want to, you become a fatalist. People die in all kinds of circumstances all day. But you inactive hope it won't be you today. There's no another way to function. If you can't accept it, plan your journey and face the situation of an emigrant.
There are a fewer simple life-hacks that will let you to increase your chances of endurance even in your bed without moving to a shelter, basement or subway station all night.
First of all, there is the alleged rule of 2 walls. I mean, during the alarm, it's good to be in a area that separates at least 2 walls from the exterior facade. So the outside wall and any kind of partition wall. Since the most dangerous things are erstwhile hit flying through the area pieces of broken glass, it is good to sleep in places where these windows are not (where they do not come). It's usually a bathroom, a hallway, a closet.
Sleeping in a bathtub – an average pleasure. Will you accommodate with your household in a wardrobe – I don't know. But already on any windowless corridor or hall you can arrange any temporary sleeping places.
If you have a spacious wagon kind car, consider whether, after placing the rear seats and padded the created space with a mattress, you will not gain 2 sleeping places for adults + a tiny child. A vehicle parked in an underground parking lot can be specified a safe place for a fewer hours' sleep during a rocket-hot night. Better than sitting on the level in any basement, bunker or subway.
During the alarm, tilt the beginning windows (leave the door handle in the position ‘repeated’ but without beginning the window – it will not be so cool). In this way, there is simply a chance that the impact wave that enters the rooms will not push out the windows, but simply opens them, which will save you quite a few problem putting in fresh windows. You don't believe this is working? Check. Look at photograph 20 below.
Photo 20. Building in the Kiev industrial district. On that day, about 30 hits of rockets and drones were recorded on an area of about 40 ha. Closest ballistics came within 200 meters. June 2025 [photo: own].
See the windows on the 3rd floor? This is all my company. Why are they all locked up? due to the fact that at night, erstwhile more than 30 Shahids and rockets flew into the promo area, all the windows were lifted. Ground floor, first and second floors are without windows. My windows are here. A method of aversion? It's working. Enjoy and let the neighbors look at your windows with a hint of envy, just as my neighbors looked at the day after my windows were attacked.
I know that seeing an active anti-aircraft defence in the night sky is epic and catches your eye. Crossing the sky the routers are truly phenomenal and can not be compared to anything. It's charming. But consider that standing in a window watching this deadly spectacle is not the safest thing to do. Remember the building on the Pozniaki in photograph 18? If individual were to stand outside the window and admire the attack, they could at best take 2 or 3 steps back before being driven to almost 200 km/h Shahid has entered the facade. due to the fact that that's all (if at all) you'll be able to do as part of the avoidance before the target, which is 2.5 x 3 x 0.4 meters, is painted black and flies at 200 km/h. You won't announcement him in time. Not a chance.
So look at this thrilling spectacle, but let the kids be in the hallway. And don't look long. Do not test your happiness more than is absolutely necessary. Yeah, I know why even test them. due to the fact that the view of the night sky crossed by routers and brightened by explosions with sometimes flaming drones (this is simply a spectacle!) is not equal. Fires, detonation sounds, second counting, adrenaline – all of this is like a drug. Better than sex. So final.
All right. You know as much about anti-aircraft alarms as I do. And now it's time for bed. And don't let the alarm stress you besides much. Take it with a cool calculation, utilizing all the cognition I can give you. Rocket's a bitch, but yours hasn't been manufactured yet. You gotta believe in something.
