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Hand-to-hand combat breaks out on streets of Kyiv suburb
2022-03-10
[NY Post] Hand-to-hand combat has broken out in the streets of the Kyiv suburb of Irpin, which has been devastated by relentless Russian bombing and shortages of food, water and electricity.

"There is real street fighting now," a Ukrainian paratrooper named Stas told AFP. "In some places, there is hand-to-hand combat." The paratrooper, who did not provide his full name, said the Russians have staged "a huge column, 200 men, 50 light armored vehicles, several tanks" in the small town.

Russian troops, hoping to advance to the capital, Kyiv, need to make their way through Irpin first. "We are trying to push them out, but I don’t know if we’ll be fully able to do it," Stas said. "The situation is very unstable."

Images from the town show it in ruins. On Sunday, Tatiana Perebeynos, 43, her two children, Alise, 9, and Nikita, 18, and a man they were traveling with were killed when Russian forces indiscriminately fired at them as they were fleeing Irpin.

"The Russians are positioning themselves in residential buildings, apartments, shops," soldier Konstantyn Lokhmitskiy told AFP. "After that, they started shooting exclusively at civilians. ... This is my third war. But this never used to happen. No one shot at civilians back then."
Posted by:Angaiper Ulavins1210

#1  ...but its OK, cause its not Americans doing it. (do I need to put a /sarc on that?)
Posted by: Procopius2k   2022-03-10 07:42  

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