(24 Aug 2022)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Irpin, Kyiv region - 16 August 2022
1. Destroyed bridge
2. Irpin police officer Ruslan Huseinov walking past damage
3. Crosses on bridge
4. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Ruslan Huseinov, police officer:
"This bridge was the road from hell. We got people out of there because (in Irpin) conditions were terrible with bombing, shelling."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: Irpin, Kyiv region - 5 March 2022
5. Various of people walking through bridge
ASSOCIATED PRESS
ARCHIVE: Irpin, Kyiv region - 7 March 2022
6. Huseinov running with a small girl in hand
7. People running across the road
8. Medics and police officers moving man into ambulance
9. People walking with child; UPSOUND: shelling
10. People running through field; UPSOUND: shelling
11. Car with bullet holes
12. Various of people inside evacuation van
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Irpin, Kyiv region - 16 August 2022
13. Huseinov walking through bridge
14. Crosses
15. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Ruslan Huseinov, police officer:
"People witnessed our solidarity. In my mind, everything has changed: My values in life. Now I understand what we have to lose."
16. Huseinov walking through the bridge
17. Huseinov walking to police car
18. Huseinov sitting in police car
19. Huseinov in the mirror
20. Various of Huseinov driving
21. Destroyed residential building
STORYLINE
Before the Russian withdrawal from Kyiv and surrounding areas on April 2, suburbs and towns near the city's airport were pounded by rockets, artillery fire and aerial bombardment in an effort to break Ukrainian defences.
Entire city blocks of apartments were blackened by the shelling in Irpin, just 20 kilometres (12 miles) northwest of the capital, along a route where police Lt. Ruslan Huseinov patrolled daily.
Some of the most dramatic scenes from the early stages of the war were of the evacuation from Irpin, underneath a destroyed highway bridge, where thousands escaped the relentless attacks.
Huseinov was there for 16 days, organising crossings where the elderly were carried along muddy pathways in wheelbarrows.
Reconstruction work has begun on the bridge, where mangled concrete and iron bars hang over the river.
Clothing and shoes from those who fled can still be seen tangled in the debris.
"This bridge was the road from hell," says 34-year-old Huseinov standing next to an overturned white van still lodged into a slab of smashed concrete.
"We got people out of (Irpin) because conditions were terrible — with bombing and shelling," he said.
He recounted how many lost their children, siblings and members of their family.
Crosses made from construction wood are still nailed to the railings of the bridge to honour those lost and the effort to save civilians.
"People witnessed our solidarity," says Huseinov, who grew up in Germany and says he would never again take the good things in life for granted.
"In my mind, everything has changed: My values in life," he said. "Now I understand what we have to lose."
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