Irpin is the strategic city providing northwestern access to Ukraine's capital Kyiv. After days of intense fighting, FRANCE 24 visited the last accessible checkpoint to meet those fleeing the raging battle, just a few hours before the 36-hour curfew began.
Ambulances arrive from Irpin with sirens blaring. Aboard are the city's last round of residents, fleeing the shelling that has destroyed most of their city. The upmarket suburb was home to 110,000 inhabitants before the war, and now the majority of the population has been evacuated.
