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Russian ghosts: "Some of the conversations—about elderly parents who couldn’t make the journey, or teen-age children forced to separate from their first loves—were familiar to me from the nineteen-seventies, when a small number of people, mostly Jews, were able to leave the U.S.S.R. But this was different. The old Russian émigrés were moving toward a vision of a better life; the new ones were running from a crushing darkness. “It’s like watching everyone you know turn into a ghost of themselves,” a friend, Ilya Venyavkin, said."
Your link - https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/03/28/the-russians-fleeing-putins-wartime-crackdown?utm_source=pocket-newtab
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Ukrainian Family’s Dash for Safety Ends in Death

Russian forces hit a bridge being used by civilians evacuating the fighting in Ukraine. Four people were killed.


Ukrainian soldiers rushed to aid a family hit by Russian mortar fire Sunday, but there was little to be done. Lynsey Addario for The New York Times

By Lynsey Addario and Andrew E. Kramer
March 6, 2022

IRPIN, Ukraine — The bridge was just a shell of its old self, blown up days earlier by Ukrainian soldiers intent on slowing the Russian advance on the capital, Kyiv, but battered as it was, it offered a lifeline to civilians desperate to flee the fighting.

On Sunday, as Ukrainian refugees were milling near the entrance to the structure, calculating their odds of making it safely over the Irpin River, a family laden with backpacks and a blue roller suitcase decided to chance it.

The Russian mortar hit just as they made it across into Kyiv.


A Ukrainian soldier running to check on the family. Lynsey Addario for The New York Times

A cloud of concrete dust lofted into the morning air. When it settled, Ukrainians could be seen running madly from the scene. But not the family. A mother and her two children lay still on the roadway, along with a family friend.


Source: Satellite imagery via Google Earth The New York Times

Russia’s president, Vladimir V. Putin, has repeatedly denied that his forces are targeting civilians fleeing battle zones. He did so again on Sunday, a day after a railroad track used to evacuate Ukrainians came under fire.

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A steady stream of Ukrainians have been fleeing the fighting around Irpin. Lynsey Addario for The New York Times

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Amid the flow of refugees, Ukrainian soldiers helped an elderly woman. Lynsey Addario for The New York Times

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Medics treated many of the evacuees for stress. Lynsey Addario for The New York Times

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A wounded man was placed on a stretcher after being shot on Sunday. Lynsey Addario for The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/06/world/europe/ukrainian-family-killed-war.html


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And if Russians don't get Putin themselves it gives people as myself yet another good reason to live some
20 years longer. To see Putin brought before the ICC facing war criminal charges. As Milosevic was.
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