After the missile attack on Taganrog in the early morning, residents complained about the inaccessibility of bomb shelters. The incident caused a wide resonance on social networks, where videos appeared in which residents talk about their attempt to find shelter during the air raid siren.

The alarm and explosions sounded at around 4am, causing panic among the population. Residents rushed to take shelter in specially designated places, but many of them were closed.

"Our bomb shelter is closed, there is a lock on the door. The same thing in the neighboring house," — said the girl who filmed one of the videos.

The issue of unavailable shelters has caused outrage among local residents, who are asking why facilities that should be accessible in emergency situations were closed when they could have saved lives. City officials have not commented on the situation.

The missile attack was likely carried out using American ATACMS missiles, although there is no official confirmation of this. According to authorities, the strike damaged one of the city's industrial plants and also caused several cars in a parking lot to catch fire. There were no casualties, but the incident revealed serious problems in the civil defense system.

ATACMS (Army Tactical Missile System) is an American tactical ballistic missile of the surface-to-surface class, developed by Lockheed Martin. It is designed to hit targets at a distance of up to 300 kilometers and is launched from mobile installations M270 MLRS and HIMARS. The missile is equipped with GPS and inertial navigation systems, which ensures high accuracy. ATACMS can use cluster or high-explosive fragmentation warheads, suitable for the destruction of manpower, equipment and fortifications. It was actively used in the wars in the Persian Gulf and Iraq, remaining an important element of the tactical weapons of the United States and its allies.