From the triumph of irpin to hell Bucha. On Monday, around 4:30 p.m., it was the mayor of the city on the outskirts of Kyiv himself who broke the good news for the Ukrainian front through his channel telegram at the end of a field day. The capital has breathed i strugglein particular the northwestern part, directly towards the two centers of the belt, a few kilometers apart and twenty minutes by car Maidan. The message posted by the mayor fighter, Oleksandr Markushin, was quickly picked up by the other Telegram channels and confirmation came shortly after. the decisive battles to avoid the breakthrough Russian tanks with the Z on the iron they have developed in this piece of land.
Fighting has intensified in recent days. Indeed, in the middle of last week, the expulsion of the Russians from Irpin had been announced, but the conquest had not been complete. While in Irpin the mayor celebrates the news of the ashes of a town that practically no longer exists, the situation a few kilometers to the north remains dramatic: “Beatings against the civilian housesInfrastructure destroyed, focus on citizens evacuation: The Russian army commits unspeakable crimes about Bucha. We will not forgive them,” a military spokesman from Kyiv said in a statement released in the afternoon.
According to reports from one of the two parties to the conflict, the situation in Bucha would be dramatic. At about twenty kilometers as the crow flies, the echo can be heard bombing and the artillery shells were a faithful companion throughout the day. I repeated roars alternating with the sound of sirens which echoed over Kyiv three times throughout the day today. A situation that has now become common practice. Capital is reduced to one empty skeleton, especially in the northwest suburban area. The residents of the area now seem resigned and no one reacts particularly to every sound of the siren fear. But the bombs and bullets fall a few kilometers away.
Should the Ukrainian army succeed in pushing back the Russian troops further north and towards the Belarusian border, a new game would be opened in Kyiv and, most importantly, the grip would be relaxed. The city has a spooky aspect, the streets are half empty and everyone shops, offices and shops are closed. Only in the central area between the Olympic Quarter and Piazza Indipendenza about Shota Rustaveli, some cafes and restaurants tentatively reopened their doors on Saturday. Especially me young they take advantage of it. Services that are also active within the train station with convoys back and forth Lviv and Kharkiv operational but otherwise, apart from pharmacies, a few ‘magazine’, a few banks and the street vendors, all the shutters are down. The expected normality is still a long way off.