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When Russian tanks rolled through the Kyiv suburbs in the first days of the Ukraine invasion, Sergei Sotnychenko couldn’t leave home. A resident of Irpin, a quaint small town on the doorstep of the Ukrainian capital, Sotnychenko was forced to shelter in place with his elderly mother as bombs began falling on his neighbors’ homes. For the entire month of March, the battle of Irpin raged on as the Russian army sought to capture Kyiv.
The story was reported with a local journalist who requested anonymity due to the sensitive nature of his work. Semafor independently corroborated Sotnychenko’s account.
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