'It’s really when you go the outskirts that you see the real devastation.” Newstalk's SeanMoncrieff visits the Ukrainian capital Kyiv just days ahead of the one-year anniversary of the Russian invasion. PatKenny
presenter said there was an air raid alert in Kyiv the moment he walked out of the train station with producer Aisling Moore.
“These are effectively suburbs of Kyiv,” he said. “This is like as if an invading army got as far as Dun Laoghaire and just flattened the place.”Séan said locals believe the Russian soldiers were surprised by the resistance they encountered when they arrived in the towns and became more violent as a result.
“When they went inside there was a lot of looting because they were a bit, ‘you have a microwave, you have a TV, we were told you were all peasants with no money,’ which, from the stories we were told, just seemed to infuriate them even further.“There were bodies piling up outside doors - the Russians wouldn’t allow funerals to take place - to the extent dogs were eating bodies in the street, while people were looking out their front windows.
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