Free to read: Once a leafy suburb, the Ukrainian city of Irpin has become a byword for the $105.5bn in infrastructural damage caused by Russia’s invasion. One street tells the story of the destruction, and we look into the impact it has had on residents🧵 ft.com/rebuilding-one…
After a month of brutal street and artillery combat, Russia withdrew from the area in late March — leaving the people of Irpin to pick up the pieces ft.com/rebuilding-one…
Irpin’s House of Culture built in 1954, was one of the main hubs of life in the city, hosting concerts, exhibitions, school events and dance classes for children.
Now, it has no roof and the walls are covered in marks from shrapnel and mortars ft.com/rebuilding-one…
Engineers will examine the House of Culture’s load-bearing structures for damage to determine whether it can be repaired or if it will have to be rebuilt from scratch ft.com/rebuilding-one…
On the first day after Russia’s forces withdrew, Vitaly Fefelov went back to inspect his apartment on the top floor of a nine-storey building to find a missing roof and the floor half-flooded with rainwater. He still spent one chilly night there ft.com/rebuilding-one…
The day the war broke out, Nataliya Melnyk and her husband fled Irpin for safer ground in western Ukraine. When they returned, they discovered their pie shop on Soborna street no longer had any windows ft.com/rebuilding-one…
In Irpin alone, as many as 8,651 buildings — half the total amount in the city — were damaged in the fighting, with a further 2,501 partially or completely destroyed ft.com/rebuilding-one…
Emergency services workers have begun inspecting every damaged building for mines and unexploded ordnance. But the process is long and painstaking ft.com/rebuilding-one…
Free to read: Rebuilding will take years, and normal life remains a long way off. Only about half of Irpin’s pre-war population of 60,000 has returned. Tap here for our visual journey through a street in the city to understand the true cost of the war ft.com/rebuilding-one…
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