.janeferguson and jeromesessini report from Irpin, a small city in Ukraine that has become a locus of violence and suffering simply due to its geography.
, a suburb cursed by its geography. The small city of sixty thousand people sits in the way of the Russian Army as it tries to move from Hostomel Airport, which it controls, and into the capital. When Ukraine’s Army put up a strong defense in Irpin, the city’s residents found shells, bullets, and battles raging around them.At the last turnoff for Irpin, stern-faced Ukrainian soldiers and police, hunched under a frigid gray sky, manned a checkpoint of piled-up sandbags.
A few minutes later, Natalia, a small, gray-haired grandmother with glasses, arrived from Irpin in a rescue van operated by volunteers with her family. “We didn’t touch anybody,” she told us. “We didn’t touch that Putin. We don’t understand why he started this war. For what?” She had remained in her small, one-story home in Irpin for eighteen long days, with her husband, daughter, son-in-law, and two-year-old granddaughter, Sophia.
A table was piled high with boiled eggs, crackers, and old plates. Volunteers intermittently managed to bring in food to civilians and fighters.The New Yorker , had visited a frigid basement turned makeshift bunker in Irpin. Elderly residents less able-bodied than Natalia lay on cots, curled up beneath filthy blankets. Some wandered around with walkers, looking confused and frightened. “Most of the people in the shelters were elderly,” Sessini told me. “They were all very scared.” Volunteers intermittently managed to bring in food to civilians and fighters. A table was piled high with old plates, boiled eggs, and crackers.
The bodies of two Russian soldiers, who were killed during the fighting in Irpin, lie on the ground near the last Ukrainian position.A Ukrainian fleeing fighting in Bucha makes the journey to Bilohorodka.As Sessini made his way back toward Kyiv, he visited the main bridge to the capital, which the Ukrainian military had blown up to slow the Russian advance. As Sessini photographed the bridge from the Irpin side, elderly civilians slowly traversed its remains.
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