Gevgen Sporomirsky’s body trembles so much that the man can not even hold the cigarette to his lips, looking at it home of to on fireafter bombing from the Russian forces to its north Kiev.
The explosions continue, so strong that its neighbors hide to shelter behind the wooden fences of the yards. But Gevgen, in a state of shock, remains in the middle of the road.
“I was going to open the fridge to get eggs. Then, one strong boom“the refrigerator fell on me, then the whole house fell”, said the 49-year-old man, crying. His wolf dog was barking and circling in the yard while the house was burning and the sound of battle could be heard from afar.
As the smoke is thickening, his neighbors shout for him to cover up and Gevgen starts running, then falls to his knees. “My whole life was lost. My wife managed to get out the window and I thank God the children had left ten minutes earlier. “This thing fell into their room,” he explained.
Chariot Cemetery
THE Russian invasion in Ukrainewhich is already in its second week, is now marked by increasingly deadly attacks, apparently without discrimination, even against residential areas, such as the town of Irpin, where Gevgen lives.
Dense black smoke rises from the northwestern suburbs of Kiev, as Russian bombardment continued almost uninterruptedly. The residents are terrified and confused.
THE Russian army will find it difficult to capture Irpin because Ukraine made a radical decision: it blew up the bridges on the west side of Kiev.
According to Irpin residents, on the night of Thursday to Friday russian chariots destroyed a warehouse owned by the American cosmetics company Mary Kay.
“I do not know what the chariots are doing there, since they can not cross the river to enter Kyiv“, Observed Vassil Prichodok, a security guard. “They shoot something, then they retreat. “Maybe they are just trying to scare us,” the 47-year-old added.
The neighboring town of Boutsa became cemetery for russian armor who were trying to enter the Ukrainian capital last week. An entire road in this deserted and partially ruined city is littered with what is left of burnt chariots and other vehicles bearing the distinctive “V” badge. The insignia was found in Russian military equipment used in recent weeks in military exercises conducted by the Russian army in neighboring Belarus, along the border with Ukraine.
“We will survive”
At the main checkpoint between Bhutan and Irpin, three men are kneeling on the ground, with their hands up, while Ukrainian soldiers mark them with Kalashnikovs on the chest.
The Ukrainian soldiers They are searching forests and fields, looking for Russian “saboteurs” who could try to infiltrate Kyiv in political garb.
At a distance of a few meters, some elderly people are crammed into a wall to be covered by shells and rockets. Behind them, in the background, is what is left of a burned, damaged house.
Victor Pobendny walks on a dirt road in the neighboring town of Stagyanka, looking at the burning sky and wondering when international promises of help to Ukraine will be fulfilled to make his own life safer.
“They have imposed so many sanctions on Russia and nothing is working,” said the retired naval officer. “They must say that if this war does not stop, NATO forces will come in to stabilize the situation in Ukraine. “This can not continue,” he added, heartbroken.
Oksana Surinova, for her part, took matters into her own hands. The 52-year-old woman always carries a rifle in the passenger seat, in her car. “I must defend my homeland”, he said. “All of us who are still here will stay until the end and I hope we will survive.”
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