Twenty minutes remain until the ‘humanitarian’ ceasefire ends. Anxiety is mounting. I want to leave here. But we must witness the inhumanity that is still taking place.The light is fading and the feathery snow floats sideways rather than falling. This is, perhaps, the last chance of evacuation for the remaining citizens of the already ruined satellite towns of Irpin and Bucha.Those who can – who have dared – leave their basements after almost two weeks under fire have spent this awful day in a conflicting state of hope and terror; first emerging from hiding, then struggling across the bone cold, fast flowing Irpin river to reach the buses that will take them to the relative safety of the city limits beyond.
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