The battle of Irpin: Meeting the Ukrainian resistance • FRANCE 24 English

[Music] reporters here on france 24 i'm mark owen the russian invasion of ukraine has provoked a huge refugee crisis as vladimir putin's forces have surrounded and bombarded strategic cities putin's aim was to have his forces take the capital kiev within the first 72 hours of the illegal invasion which of course he launched on february the 24th a month later the russians are bogged down ukrainian resistance is resolute urpin one of the satellite towns outside kiev is a key position in the battle to take or to keep the capital cyril pion and george yazbeck have been to european where the destruction and the death has shocked the world and finally made everyone see how desperate the russians now are and how determined the ukrainians are to resist [Music] [Music] oh let's ready to rumble [Music] if i'm looking tired that means that i'm tired [Music] uh in moscow my friends even ask me how much i'm paid to tell such lies here it's my home and i'll protect my house my friends and you of course what about your little brother how is he have you had any news no nothing all i know is that he was with the army in my town in russia from the little information i managed to get his unit has gone to the front line as soon as the war started i have no contact with him i just know he's there somewhere on the other side to all the ukrainians who have taken refuge in france and abroad don't worry we'll win and you'll be able to come home soon it's the side we control on the other side it's the russians [Applause] here take this for the grenade it's going to work yes good luck thank you we killed every russian [ __ ] [ __ ] you killed a russian already every day happy day what is there man i i live here [Music] it's dangerous here really look it's it's their checkpoint you see tank no no tank here yes bad idea because you have tank [Music] russian soldiers the russians started attacking on the other side of the park there on the southern side there are plenty of people civilians they did it on purpose to shoot on civilians they kill everyone oh this is alcohol not alcohol in ukraine huh oh wow no show hello fertilizer with their bodies [Music] we still have a lot of food we are lack of electricity and and water so it will depend uh from of it you know but the the russians are not too far now yes so do you think at some point you will go for what what is your plan no plan we still have people here so we have to help them my poor dog is homeless just like me they bombed my house my poor dog we are alive but i have nothing to feed him poor dog people said what did ukraine do to bharati why are you invading us why are you coming here to massacre us ukrainians they didn't answer nothing they just repeated we have orders we only civilians it's awful poor people who were on their bikes and were trying to escape it's terrible yeah i have no words thank you thank you for being here to defend us we're praying for you free us from the invaders we'll send them to hell my dear son i'll pray for you every night be strong we love you like our own children thank you thank you so much may god keep you alive and may you go back to your families you are heroes don't worry we'll defeat them we'll win thank you thank you funny thing because it's a war time and somebody left me advertising foreign students have office here okay we'll go this is the monument of another border it's like militsky [Music] heroes this square here is very important it's a sacred place for us the slavic people over the centuries we've been called different things but today we're ukraine our faith is very strong and very important for us and it always has been so the conclusion is simple if we're ukrainians it's because we have resisted ukraine means resistance [Music] come on [Music] foreign you okay yes man i'm okay all right i'm ready good i'm ready to rumble let's ready to rumble where are they close what they are close now um the bastards are striking us they're trying to destroy our artillery we're going to answer back we're going to massacre it's not very far right that's okay did they just destroy the bridge wow [ __ ] so no problem with our reporters special feature on the battle for urpin see it again on our website france24.com we continue with our special coverage of ukraine's fight to stop the illegal russian invasion this is reporters stay with us most of all stay safe [Music]

Channel: FRANCE 24 English

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Keywords: FRANCE 24, French Foreign Legion, Irpin, Kyiv, Putin, Report, Resistance, Russia, Russian troops, Ukraine, Ukraine's War, Ukrainian resistance, War, War in Ukraine, Zelensky

Id: J3o_1mVl7G4

Length: 16min 21sec (981 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 24 2022