(13 Apr 2022)
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Irpin - 11 April 2022
1. Close of broken window glass
HEADLINE: Residents return to Irpin to find destroyed homes
2. View from damaged windows
ANNOTATION: Residents of Irpin, outside of Kyiv, returned hoping to begin to rebuild their lives and salvage their homes damaged by Russian military shelling.
3. Irpin resident Olexiy Planida walking inside his damaged apartment
4. Damaged bedroom
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Olexiy Planida, Irpin resident:
"I don't know. We will try now just to close the windows, to protect from rain and from water. I don't know, I don't..."
6. Breakfast left on kitchen table when Planida's family fled   
ANNOTATION: The Russians broke open all the apartment doors and took a laptop, iPad and jewellery.
7. Various of Planida placing sheet of plastic on the broken window
ANNOTATION: He's sure it was the Russians because local thieves pick the locks instead.
8. View from window of police patrolling outside
9. Curtains blowing through broken windows
ANNOTATION: Down the hallway, Oksana Lyul'ka used work gloves to clear the broken glass from her living room floor.
10. Various of Irpin resident Oksana Lyul'ka, collecting broken glass  
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Oksana Lyul'ka, Irpin resident:
++SOUNDBITE STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT++
"We feel just empty because all of us who have like a piece of heart here, it's our houses, so I feel terrible actually, especially when I saw from outside my apartment, my building, it's very hard to see."
12. Close of Lyul'ka's apartment keys
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Oksana Lyul'ka, Irpin resident:
++SOUNDBITE STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT AND IS PARTLY OVERLAID WITH THE FOLLOWING SHOTS++
"Our main problem now is Russians (are) still in our country so we have to win war and then we will decide. The house is it's not really the most important thing in our life. Of course we all feel pain, and it's hard and it's terrible, but people are suffering, people are dying, and this is the main problem for now."
14. Various of damaged building, obscured by electric wires
15. Various of destroyed cars and military vehicles amassed in parking lot
ANNOTATION: Near the slowly reviving bridge linking Irpin to Kyiv, dozens of cars abandoned by fleeing residents were being placed in rows.
ANNOTATION: Now people are showing up at the lot to look for what they left behind.
STORYLINE:
Residents of Irpin, outside of Kyiv, returned to salvage their homes damaged by Russian military shelling in the hope of restoring their lives.
Pounding sounds came from a sixth-floor window, along with the risk of falling glass.
For once, it was not destruction, but rebuilding.
Heartened by Russia's withdrawal from the capital region, residents have begun coming home, at least to what's left.
Irpin just weeks ago saw desperate scenes of flight.
Terrified residents picked their way across slippery planks of a makeshift bridge after a concrete span was destroyed by Ukrainian forces to slow the Russian advance.
The early returnees are among the seven million Ukrainians displaced inside their country by the war.
They are crossing paths with the elderly and others who waited out Russia's assault in cold, damp basements, numbed by the sounds of shelling, and who have emerged into a landscape of ruined tanks and splintered homes.
In colourful Irpin apartment blocks where cafes and salons are still silent, there are the first signs of life amid the shattered glass and scorched walls.
This was his first time home since he fled with his wife, two small children and their dog.

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