The shattered homes of this formerly comfortable suburb of Kyiv offer a glimpse of what besieged cities in Ukraine's east and south may be experiencing.
Rhyzenko is a retired Ukrainian naval captain who had trained with NATO forces and in the United States. He and his wife fled Irpin, a suburb of Kyiv that wasHis friends in the U.S. government believed he could be, he said. That remained a concern this past weekend as he returned home and the search for Russian explosives began.
While Russian attacks on this country carry on and thousands of displaced Ukrainians continue to flee homes destroyed in this invasion, residents here face the quiet trauma after a disaster. As they work to pick up the pieces in Irpin, they hope that the Kremlin’s ambitionsFor now, residents are pushing for stores to reopen and for utilities to get back online. They are even having to fix holes that Russians cut into fences and garages to create shooting positions.
A career’s worth of military pins and collectors coins that Rhyzenko had kept from his time at NATO had disappeared along with the binoculars his father had given him from his time in the Soviet Navy. The ransackers did leave behind Rhyzenko’s replica model of the Russian ship Moskva, however,“They missed something important here,” he quipped. “This is a piece of history since it is underwater.
At the market, Igor Krichtatovitch, 76, a scientist who spent years living in Seattle before retiring here, said it had been difficult to buy food in recent weeks. But some crucial services had returned. After spending weeks in the basement with his family, he said they had finally gotten water back and, most crucially, cellphone service.
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