Sky's ramsaysky walks through a collection of cars 'mainly exclusively driven by civilians' that had been shot at near Kyiv including the car he and his team were in when they were shot at back in February
It's slowly getting dark as we approach the western limits of Kyiv. The red brake lights of the cars heading for the centre of town illuminate the road as they approach the last bridge across the river Irpin and turn right down a dusty access road to a temporary bridge.
The traffic inched on past the industrial park, we passed a high and steep embankment looking up to the motorway. The embankment I dived down after being shot in the back, the embankment that gave five of us vital cover that allowed us to escape.I was concerned I'd get some kind of awful flashback. I didn't. I felt nothing really. Well, I was interested, but it wasn't particularly moving.Events of which we were just the first to endure.
But with the M06 impassable, and the Ukrainian guerrilla tactics taking their toll, it seems that units within the Russian army began to kill and terrorise the civilian population. 35-year-old detective Vitalii Rublenko was one of the first officers to return to his base after the Russians withdrew."When we left, we saw bodies and these cars on this road. We were under fire and moving to another place, a safer place. But when we came back to do our jobs, we were terrified. Everything was smashed, the road was destroyed, there were a lot of bodies."
Ukrainian prosecutors are now questioning captured Russian soldiers about their involvement in the western Kyiv region, namely the towns of Bucha and Irpin, and the M06 and E40 highways. While we were under fire, we initially thought the ambush on our Hyundai family saloon was a mistake, that it was a Ukrainian checkpoint.
We'd seen pictures from other journalists taken when the car was still abandoned on the bridge, but it was a sobering experience seeing it in person, seeing just how many rounds penetrated the vehicle. They asked people in their neighbourhood what was the best direction to travel and were put in contact with a man who had safely made the journey.
The soldier told Serhii to take his daughter and leave. Serhii called for his dog, which jumped out of the window of the car and followed them. He walked to the closest village.
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