People are being starved and cold in basements, held hostage: international community urged to end humanitarian crisis near Kyiv
In Irpen and in neighboring towns and villages – a humanitarian catastrophe. Locals are starving and cold in the basements, holding them hostage. We call on the entire international community to work to save the civilian population from destruction. This is stated in the address of Irpen mayor Volodymyr Karplyuk, which was shared by the current mayor Oleksandr Markushin and the Ministry of Internal Affairs on Facebook,
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“In Irpen and in neighboring towns and villages – a humanitarian catastrophe. Vorzel, Bucha, Gostomel, Zabuchcha and Mikhailovka-Rubezhivka – Russian troops, do not allow locals to leave the house. battles are being fought, “Karplyuk wrote.
He noted that Russian troops bombed the Irpin city clinic and a new medical center, medical personnel and some medical equipment were evacuated. The occupiers seized some of the medicines and the previously imported humanitarian. The occupiers threatened to kill the mayor of Irpen and demanded the surrender of Irpen. But Irpin does not give up.
In all the above settlements there is no mobile communication, light, water supply. Due to fires in many neighborhoods had to cut off gas supply.
On March 7, the Fiberglass Institute was blown up in Bucha. Vapors of acetone and other chemicals rose into the sky in black smoke towards Irpen and Mykhailivka-Rubezhivka.
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“There are corpses in basements and on the streets all over Priirpinne, the occupiers do not allow even the Red Cross to take away bodies, they fire on humanitarian aid cars.”
Irpin, Bucha, Gostomel, Vorzel, Mykhailivka-Rubezhivka, Zabuchchia are already the epicenter of the humanitarian catastrophe.
A safe green corridor is urgently needed to reach Irpen and further evacuate through Kyiv for residents of Irpen, Bucha, Gostomel, Vorzel, Mykhailivka-Rubezhivka, and Zabuchche.
The occupiers do not allow to carry humanitarian aid to these settlements! Locals are starving and cold in the basements, holding them hostage. We call on the entire international community to make efforts to save the civilian population from death, “he said.
Source: Ukrgate