Irbin residents grabbed their children, luggage and pets and ran down the sidewalks, boarding buses and cars to pick them up from the fight.

Soldiers and other residents helped the elderly men and women who were left behind.

Some ducks were evacuated as explosives exploded nearby, apparently from a motor fire.

Russian troops are carrying out mortar attacks near a dilapidated bridge used to evacuate civilians.

The BBC was able to establish that three civilians, a mother and two children were killed in one of these motor attacks. Although the exact number is not known there is information that may still be a victim.

Ukraine has accused Russian forces of deliberately targeting Irbine evacuation tracks following the attack on a railroad on Saturday.

Like Irfin, the small towns of Hostomல்l and Pucha in northwestern Kiev have seen violent clashes in recent days.

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