Escape From Irpin
Residents flee Russian shelling outside of Kyiv
Irpin, a small town just outside Kyiv, has been attacked relentlessly by Russian forces since the start of the invasion. Hundreds of residents try to escape the danger in buses, made more difficult by shelling.
‘Our parents experienced war, they thought we wouldn’t. But here it is’, says one woman. ‘Yesterday they started shelling the road ahead of me’, says Sanya, a bus driver. ‘I had sixteen people on my bus, half of them were children. I promised to take them to a safe place’. Irpin’s hospital has been badly affected by the attacks; it has no heating or access to medical equipment, leaving doctors unable to help the wounded. ‘It’s very hard for everyone. They’re sleeping in basements. No electricity, no water. It’s a humanitarian disaster’, says one resident.
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