Brave of
@nytimes
to put this shocking, jarring
@lynseyaddario
photograph on the front page. That poor family, trying to escape, all killed by #Russian mortar fire.

There is no both-sides in this #RussianUkrainianWar

#Putin killed these people. These are war crimes.

Pure horror: Russian soldiers are deliberately killing Ukrainian civilians trying to flee. A mother & 2 children were killed and father wounded by a mortar shell as hundreds of civilians sought safety.
@nytimes
photographer Lynsey Addario witnessed it. https://nytimes.com/2022/03/06/world/europe/ukraine-irpin-civilian-death.html

The front page of The New York Times for March 7, 2022.

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Ukrainian Family’s Dash for Safety Ends in Death

Russian forces hit a bridge being used by civilians evacuating the fighting in Ukraine. Four people were killed.



Ukrainian soldiers rushed to aid a family hit by Russian mortar fire Sunday, but there was little to be done.Credit...Lynsey Addario for The New York Times

By Lynsey Addario and Andrew E. Kramer
March 6, 2022

IRPIN, Ukraine — The bridge was just a shell of its old self, blown up days earlier by Ukrainian soldiers intent on slowing the Russian advance on the capital, Kyiv, but battered as it was, it offered a lifeline to civilians desperate to flee the fighting.

On Sunday, as Ukrainian refugees were milling near the entrance to the structure, calculating their odds of making it safely over the Irpin River, a family laden with backpacks and a blue roller suitcase decided to chance it.

The Russian mortar hit just as they made it across into Kyiv.

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Andrew E. Kramer is a reporter based in the Moscow bureau. He was part of a team that won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting for a series on Russia’s covert projection of power. @AndrewKramerNYT

A version of this article appears in print on March 7, 2022, Section A, Page 1 of the New York edition with the headline: As Shell Falls, Family’s Dash To Safety Ends. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe