The Latest Breaking News from Irpin

Ukraine news from March 13: About 100 aerial bombs have been dropped on Mariupol as Russian forces blockade the city.

Around 13,000 people were evacuated from a number of Ukrainian cities on Saturday, said Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk, almost twice the number who managed to get out the previous day.

In the heart of Irpin, a satellite city located around 20 kilometres northwest of Kyiv, FRANCE 24’s Cyril Payen finds the entire city is mounting resistance against Russian forces advancing towards the Ukrainian capital.

Sergii Perebeinis was away from his family when they died in civilian refugee corridor

Tatiana Perebeinis, 43, and her children Mykyta, 18, and Alisa, nine, were killed in a hail of shrapnel from a nearby Russian mortar explosion as they attempted to escape Irpin in Ukraine

Video footage appears to show Russian tanks and soldiers just 13 miles from the centre of Kyiv, in the town of Irpin that has been bombed mercilessly forcing people to flee

‘Adored’ IT worker hit by shelling while attempting to flee Irpin along humanitarian corridor

Tatyana Perebeynos, 43, was killed with her two children by shelling as they tried to flee Irpin on the outskirts of Kyiv with images of their bodies showing the brutality of the invasion

A photo showing scores of Ukrainians under a destroyed bridge in Irpin has been used to argue that Ukrainian forces have been preventing civilians from fleeing the conflict. The photo in question is a snapshot in time; other photos and footage show the Ukrainian army helping civilians evacuate to safety.…