In Kiev, the patriotic war of former President Petro Poroshenko

Exhausted, staring, hundreds of civilians fled the fighting in Irpin and formed a long column to rush into the yellow public transport buses parked at the edge of a forest, at the exit of the city.

Artillery fire and explosions slam around them.

In the distance, the town center of Irpin, pounded by eleven days of bombing and artillery combat, is no more than a magma of smoking ruins.

The sky, dark gray, is saturated with plumes of black smoke on this freezing Saturday morning.

Suddenly haggard faces light up when they discover a well-known figure, the former president, party leader and deputy to Parliament Petro Poroshenko.

Dressed in a Ukrainian territorial defense uniform, he came to the front in person to supervise the evacuation of civilians.

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