Ukrainian War, the New York Times photo that shocked the world
It is destined to become one of the symbol images of the horror of the war in Ukraine: at the gates of Kiev a woman is sprawled on the sidewalk near the 8 year old daughter still with the backpack on his shoulders and another a little bigger who was carrying a trolley.
I’m all three died and next to them the woman’s husband, seriously injured and with a bloody face, he is rescued by the Ukrainian military.
There shock photo published by the New York Times was taken by freelance Lynsey Addario (of which we publish an image after the shooting, when the bodies have already been covered with sheets) and tells the tragedy of a family who tried to flee to the capital to escape the Russian advance .
With them they had a green carrier from which a dog barked desperately, said the reporter. The episode was also documented by the video of another freelance from the US newspaper, Andriy Dubchak, who filmed the moment of the attack.
The parents and the two children stayed attempting to leave Irpin, headed for Kiev along a road that runs parallel to a bridge blown up by Ukrainian soldiers to slow down Russian tanks. Dozens of people were walking that stretch of a hundred meters in small groups.
Suddenly the Moscow military opened fire with mortar shots, at first further away and then right along the road: there was a general escape but the area offered no shelter and for the woman and the three children there was nothing to do. There were only a dozen Ukrainian soldiers standing nearby, the freelancer said helping children to carry luggage.
Other soldiers were fighting and firing with mortars but 200 meters away. In the morning, the commander of the Ukrainian forces in Irpin had warned on TV that the roads around were unsafe and that without a ceasefire it was impossible to leave the country. But many civilians still tried their luck to reach Kiev and perhaps from there to a safe place further west.
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