Volunteer provides relief for returning Irpin residents

Record ID: 1672982

  • Title: Volunteer provides relief for returning Irpin residents
  • Date: 14th May 2022
  • Summary: IRPIN, UKRAINE (MAY 13, 2022) (REUTERS) DRONE VIDEO OF VOLUNTEER'S HOUSE, RUINED BUILDINGS NEARBY (MUTE) VOLUNTEER, TARAS, HOLDING PAN AND WALKING IN STREET TO HOUSE SUNSHADE OVER TABLE/PEOPLE EATING AT TABLE TARAS PREPARING HOT WATER/PEOPLE EATING TARAS FILLING URN WITH WATER SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) TARAS (NO LAST NAME GIVEN), VOLUNTEER SAYING: “We provide people with food, thanks to many people and many businesses that deliver it to us. Also volunteers from other regions that do their best and understand the situation, because it is hard to even get here. We charge phones and gadgets without which it’s impossible to contact relatives and to tell them about the situation that is going on.” MAN WORKING AMID RUBBLE SEEN THROUGH WIRE FENCE GENERATOR RUNNING/MAN WORKING VARIOUS OF NATALIA HRYHORSKA, IRPIN RESIDENT EATING AT TABLE WITH OTHER PEOPLE SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) NATALIA HRYHORSKA, 63-YEARS-OLD, IRPIN RESIDENT SAYING: “When I came after Easter from Kyiv to Irpin, the security at our residential complex said that here, across the street, at private sector (household) our people are provided with food. I come here once a day, drink coffee, eat food and talk to people.” VARIOUS OF PEOPLE SITTING AT THE TABLES UNDER SUNSHADES SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) TETYANA BUYALO, 60 YEARS OLD, IRPIN RESIDENT SAYING: “I come to this house to charge my phone, because there is no electricity at the place we live and sleep now. There is no electricity, there is just cold water, no gas, nothing. That’s why you can come here to charge phone, drink coffee, take food or eat something warm. It is a support (to us).” BACKYARD OF HOUSE RUINED ROOF TIMELAPSE OF PEOPLE WALKING AROUND VOLUNTEER HOUSE (MUTE) DRONE SHOT OF RUINED HOUSES (MUTE)
  • Embargoed: 28th May 2022 13:45
  • Keywords: Irpin Russian shelling Ukraine conflict reconstruction volunteer centre
  • Location: IRPIN, UKRAINE
  • City: IRPIN, UKRAINE
  • Country: Ukraine
  • Topics: Conflicts/War/Peace,Europe,Military Conflicts
  • Reuters ID: LVA001797314052022RP1
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: An Irpin resident has opened a centre to provide food and some comfort for members of the community.
    Taras, who didn’t give his last name, said on Friday (May 13) he wanted to help Irpin residents who had lost their houses in Russian shelling.
    He runs a generator to allow people to charge their phones amid debris from damaged houses in the town northwest of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv.
    “We charge phones and gadgets without which it’s impossible to contact relatives and to tell them about the situation that is going on,” he said.
    Locals wait at the house, having something warm to eat and drink, while their phones charge.
    “I come here once a day, drink coffee, eat and talk to people,” said 63-year-old Natalia Hryhorska.
    “It is a support,” added 60-year-old Tetyana Buyalo.
    The Russian military occupied Irpin following Moscow's February 24 invasion but Ukrainian forces seized back control in late March.
    (Production: Abdelhadi Ramahi, Andriy Pryymachenko)
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