
Ukrainian designer proposes refugee memorial at site of iconic Irpin bridge destroyed to stop Russian attack
One of the most iconic images from the start of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine shows refugees huddled under a destroyed bridge next the Irpin River, at the edge of Milwaukee’s sister city Irpin. A Ukrainian designer recently presented plans to preserve the site as a memorial complex. In the early hours of the invasion, Ukrainian forces demolished the Irpin bridge, and a nearby railway bridge, in order to halt the Russian advance to Kyiv. At the same time, civilian evacuations continued for days through the same route. Residents of Irpin, Bucha, and Hostomel waited in the bridge’s wreckage for...
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