The cultural center of Byshiv village is leveled. There is a small pile of books of Ukrainian poetry that one has stacked together. Picture: Some books have been saved Macron warns Biden about confusion over regime change – live updates on Ukraine This was the center of the village, a place where they celebrated their art, creativity and heritage. A nearby building – which is battered and broken – has been used to save what they can. Piles of books are stacked on the wall. They are sad relics after decades and decades of preserving, preserving and cultivating their cultural identity and history. It is an unpredictable and brutal disaster, and it is both total and irrational. Other developments: Biden says Putin “can not stay in power” as Zelensky pushes Europe to lay down arms • Analysis: Biden may wish he had not been haunted by statements about Putin’s death • Lviv shot down minutes after Russian raids • Top Kremlin army officials show up for weeks after “significant” silence • Who are the dead Russian soldiers? Image: The cultural center in Byshiv has been reduced to rubble by Russian shells. Photo: Chris Cunningham Byshiv is only a small community about 22 miles (35 km) west of the capital – but it is guilty of obstructing Russian advance into Kyiv. It will take years to rebuild and it will probably never be the same. There are volunteers carrying the contents of the contents inside the village Kashtan kindergarten. The walls that still stand are plastered with cheerful murals and children’s drawings and souvenirs from times gone by when more than 100 kindergartens gathered at this launch pad for training. Picture: Inside the ruins of Kashtan Kindergarten in Byshiv. Photo: Chris Cunningham For the past two decades, the woman at the helm has been Svetlana Gribovska. He now presides over the remaining ruins. He is out of his mind in this silly bombing. “Many of them were handmade. We did it all ourselves,” he says of the artwork and crafts that used to adorn each room. Picture: Svetlana Griboska is devastated by the destruction of her school. Photo: Chris Cunningham He instructs the men to assemble as many intact lockers and toys as they can, and is already thinking of a future without bombardment and bombardment. But it is a future that no one can imagine right now. Classrooms have been empty by young students for over a month. If they ever return, it will not be in school or in the life they left behind, that is for sure. The director can hardly speak through her tears. He wants to, but he has resisted our polite requests for an interview so far. “I can not speak without crying,” he explains. Picture: An empty classroom full of broken windows at Kashtan Kindergarten in Byshiv. Photo: Chris Cunningham When he retreats, he speaks with the genuine grief of a woman who has devoted her entire career to being the custodian of next generation education – and saw that everything was destroyed in an instant. “I would like all this to be settled,” he tells us, “just to have peace; to have friendship. “It’s so difficult when children are suffering.” “It’s not right. The kids are not to blame for anything,” he says. But hitting the heart of the community is the trademark of the Russian military and is a tactic they have used repeatedly – in Chechnya and Syria. The Russian troops may have stopped, but this is not a failure of the attackers. It is rather their well-used tactic with sledgehammers to bomb until submission – and if not submission – then total annihilation. Picture: A shell in the courtyard of a gas station on the western highway outside Kyiv. Photo: Chris Cunningham The Ukrainians may have forced Russian troops to stop and even retreat in some areas around the capital. The military corpses we see outside the Kiev region [region] are proof of that. But the Ukrainian president is calling for fighter jets, tanks and missiles so that his troops can deal with the Russian invaders with much greater success, and he is increasingly frustrated by the procrastination from his Western allies. There are still many battles around the outskirts of the capital and many disasters in remote communities. We saw Ukrainian leaflets among the ruins, written in Russian and addressed directly to the Russian troops following the orders to carry out this destruction. One said: “The blood of the children of Ukraine is in your hands.” Image: Volunteers protect monuments in Kyiv by surrounding them with sandbags. Photo: Chris Cunningham Subscribe to Ukraine War Diaries on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Spreaker Another offered rubles and amnesty if they surrendered and gave up their weapons. In the main city of Ukraine, despite the constant provocative statements that they will eventually win, they are protecting their monuments anyway. Everyone here is aware that the Russian military machine seems to see everything and everyone as legitimate targets – and victory in the eyes of the Russians may be synonymous with elimination.
title: “Ukraine Invasion Devastated Headteacher Can T Talk Without Crying After Nursery Destroyed By Russian Shelling World News " ShowToc: true date: “2022-12-23” author: “Richard Fair”
The cultural center of Byshiv village is leveled. There is a small pile of books of Ukrainian poetry that one has stacked together. Picture: Some books have been saved Macron warns Biden about confusion over regime change – live updates on Ukraine This was the center of the village, a place where they celebrated their art, creativity and heritage. A nearby building – which is battered and broken – has been used to save what they can. Piles of books are stacked on the wall. They are sad relics after decades and decades of preserving, preserving and cultivating their cultural identity and history. It is an unpredictable and brutal disaster, and it is both total and irrational. Other developments: Biden says Putin “can not stay in power” as Zelensky pushes Europe to lay down arms • Analysis: Biden may wish he had not been haunted by statements about Putin’s death • Lviv shot down minutes after Russian raids • Top Kremlin army officials show up for weeks after “significant” silence • Who are the dead Russian soldiers? Image: The cultural center in Byshiv has been reduced to rubble by Russian shells. Photo: Chris Cunningham Byshiv is only a small community about 22 miles (35 km) west of the capital – but it is guilty of obstructing Russian advance into Kyiv. It will take years to rebuild and it will probably never be the same. There are volunteers carrying the contents of the contents inside the village Kashtan kindergarten. The walls that still stand are plastered with cheerful murals and children’s drawings and souvenirs from times gone by when more than 100 kindergartens gathered at this launch pad for training. Picture: Inside the ruins of Kashtan Kindergarten in Byshiv. Photo: Chris Cunningham For the past two decades, the woman at the helm has been Svetlana Gribovska. He now presides over the remaining ruins. He is out of his mind in this silly bombing. “Many of them were handmade. We did it all ourselves,” he says of the artwork and crafts that used to adorn each room. Picture: Svetlana Griboska is devastated by the destruction of her school. Photo: Chris Cunningham He instructs the men to assemble as many intact lockers and toys as they can, and is already thinking of a future without bombardment and bombardment. But it is a future that no one can imagine right now. Classrooms have been empty by young students for over a month. If they ever return, it will not be in school or in the life they left behind, that is for sure. The director can hardly speak through her tears. He wants to, but he has resisted our polite requests for an interview so far. “I can not speak without crying,” he explains. Picture: An empty classroom full of broken windows at Kashtan Kindergarten in Byshiv. Photo: Chris Cunningham When he retreats, he speaks with the genuine grief of a woman who has devoted her entire career to being the custodian of next generation education – and saw that everything was destroyed in an instant. “I would like all this to be settled,” he tells us, “just to have peace; to have friendship. “It’s so difficult when children are suffering.” “It’s not right. The kids are not to blame for anything,” he says. But hitting the heart of the community is the trademark of the Russian military and is a tactic they have used repeatedly – in Chechnya and Syria. The Russian troops may have stopped, but this is not a failure of the attackers. It is rather their well-used tactic with sledgehammers to bomb until submission – and if not submission – then total annihilation. Picture: A shell in the courtyard of a gas station on the western highway outside Kyiv. Photo: Chris Cunningham The Ukrainians may have forced Russian troops to stop and even retreat in some areas around the capital. The military corpses we see outside the Kiev region [region] are proof of that. But the Ukrainian president is calling for fighter jets, tanks and missiles so that his troops can deal with the Russian invaders with much greater success, and he is increasingly frustrated by the procrastination from his Western allies. There are still many battles around the outskirts of the capital and many disasters in remote communities. We saw Ukrainian leaflets among the ruins, written in Russian and addressed directly to the Russian troops following the orders to carry out this destruction. One said: “The blood of the children of Ukraine is in your hands.” Image: Volunteers protect monuments in Kyiv by surrounding them with sandbags. Photo: Chris Cunningham Subscribe to Ukraine War Diaries on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Spreaker Another offered rubles and amnesty if they surrendered and gave up their weapons. In the main city of Ukraine, despite the constant provocative statements that they will eventually win, they are protecting their monuments anyway. Everyone here is aware that the Russian military machine seems to see everything and everyone as legitimate targets – and victory in the eyes of the Russians may be synonymous with elimination. Alex Crawford reports from Byshiv in the western suburbs of the Ukrainian capital with camera operator Jake Britton and producers Chris Cunningham, Jake Jacobs, Oleksandr Piskun and Mihailo Vadimovich Cherniak.
