Library offers refuge, recovery in war-scarred Ukraine town of Irpin
Children use flashlights as they attend a meeting of their literature club in a public library during a power outage in Irpin, northwest of Kyiv, on December 23, 2022, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. PHOTO | GENYA SAVILOV | AFP
Hundreds of laptop-toting professionals and students line up outside the public library in the Ukrainian town of Irpin, desperate to get plugged in and online amid the latest energy blackout.
The library, on the ground floor of a nine-storey apartment block in the town centre of the Kyiv suburb, has become the locus and a symbol of a tentative recovery following the horrors of Russian occupation.
