Irpin. We will never forget and we will never forgive.

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Hi, my dear friends!
After the really terrible month of russian occupation we try to return to normal life.
Although we do not know if this will happen again and we understand that the war will not end for a long time, we are putting in order our villages and cities that were destroyed by Russia.

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Probably many of you have heard the names of Bucha, Irpin, Gostomel, Makarov, Borodianka and know what atrocities the Russian invaders committed there. Hundreds of civilians brutally killed... It hurts to talk about it...

As for us, we have spent this month in the middle of this infernal circle... We have been saved thanks to our forests and swamps. The Russian invaders were simply afraid of being trapped, so they tried to quickly cross our village and drive away. It saved us.

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The photo above is one of the bridges at the entrance to Irpen. It is almost completely destroyed. There is a narrow lane for the passage, but I could not drive on my own. Luckily one of our military men helped me. He quickly drove my minibus over the gaping abyss.

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On the other side our documents were checked. The military saw that we were scared and shocked by what we saw. They tried to support us and said that everything would be fine. But we could only cry. We saw the destroyed houses and understood that people were there when it happened.

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We drove along the streets with destroyed houses and were silent. We couldn't speak. We only thought about how terrified people felt when russianbombs destroyed their houses.

My friend's house survived. It was a miracle.

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All the windows were shattered by the blast, but the house was intact! We went inside. The whole floor of the apartment was covered with broken glass, it was very cold. It looked like a ruined nest. Our whole country now looks like a ruined nest.

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I silently started sweeping the floor. That's all I could do. Electricity and water were not available. Then we curtained the windows to somehow close their gaping empty eye sockets. She took some things and we went back to my village.

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On the way back, we inspected the parking lot of wrecked cars. We were looking for my friend's car in which she tried to leave Irpin under fire from Russian fascists. But we didn't find it.

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There were many cars. Broken and burned. The Russian invaders killed everyone who tried to escape. White ribbons or the inscription that there were children in the car did not stop them.

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trana.
What we saw was terrible. We believe that the world will make Russia answer for all crimes. When Russia occupied Crimea and part of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions in 2014, the world remained silent. They killed our citizens, but the world was silent, afraid to provoke the beast. Now the beast has escaped from the cage completely. Between it and the whole world - only my small but brave country.

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. Orda orkov.
We left Irpin with a heavy heart. Now we must give our sappers time to do their job. Yesterday, two civilians had already died from mines that were left in Irpin by the Russian occupiers. We thought about everyone killed here, about the raped young girls and children. Russian soldiers committed terrible crimes here. Drunk, poorly thinking and unseeing the whole civilized world. Horde of orcs.

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But we'll be back there soon. We will clear our streets and yards of rubble and plant flowers.

Love you all

Irpin. We will never forget and we will never forgive. | Ecency