In Irpin, more and more people who hoped to be able to stay at home are leaving on Tuesday, March 8.
If the inhabitants had woken up with the hope of a ceasefire, our team on the spot observed incessant shelling on the spot since Tuesday morning and even observed a very clear intensification of the Russian offensive.
This suggests that the issue of the humanitarian corridor is not respected at all.
"Irpin will never fall, Irpin will remain Ukrainian", explains a soldier at the microphone of France 24. "Irpin is ours, Irpin will not fall", adds another.
A final one warns: "You Russians are advised to go home before it's too late and you come back in coffins."
Then these soldiers drive back to the front line.
Despite the bombardments and an obvious rapprochement of the fighting, there remains a spirit of fierce resistance among the Ukrainian soldiers encountered.
On the main avenue of Irpin, Ukrainian soldiers are posted in several bunkers.
Not far from there, people continue to prepare to flee the city by car, a totally dead city, as if time had stopped.
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