In Kyiv’s Middle-Class Suburbs, Desperate People Are Trapped
- Thousands hiding in basements in towns under Russia occupation
- Zelenskiy: Russian actions ‘make no military sense whatsoever’
Residents cross a destroyed bridge in Irpin, near Kyiv, on March 7.
Photographer: Dimitar Dolkoff/AFP/Getty Images
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A cluster of towns built among fir and oak woodlands to the northwest of Kyiv have long attracted the capital’s middle class. Now they’ve been turned into places of utter desperation.
Russian forces encroaching on Kyiv in a bid to encircle the city of 2.9 million have flooded into the suburban towns whose names are fast becoming synonymous with suffering.