1000’s of Singaporeans have been following the day by day Instagram posts of former Mediacorp star Ix Shen, who’s been dwelling in Podil, a district of Kyiv, since late final yr.
Mr Shen had mentioned shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb 24 that they might keep on, however on Tuesday, he introduced a change of plan.
“Primarily based on our newest data, we’ve got determined that it’s not in our greatest pursuits to stay extensively underground throughout the subsequent part of preventing.
“So we’ll be evacuating from Kyiv, within the west course, and we’re planning and shifting as we go alongside. We’ll be secure and okay,” he mentioned in his day by day video.
For the previous 4 months, he and his spouse, Natalia, who’s Ukrainian, have been dwelling in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. Like most individuals, they’ve been principally hunkered underground for security.
He and Natalia, a practitioner of conventional Chinese language medication, wed in 2015. On Feb 24, he instructed The Straits Instances in a Zoom interview that his spouse is a reservist within the army and would possibly due to this fact be referred to as as much as function a medical officer within the military.
In his most up-to-date video, he’s seen standing behind his automobile, its trunk open and apparently filled with the household’s belongings.
The tone of the submit was markedly completely different from the video from the day earlier than, which he had captioned “The spirit is robust.” He had opened that video with a Ukrainian nationwide salute, “Slava Ukraini” which implies “Glory to Ukraine.”
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“We’re secure and okay,” he mentioned. Motioning to an apple in his hand, he added, “Yesterday on the grocery store, we had recent fruits. The resilience and the spirit remains to be robust.”
As Russian troops shut in on Kyiv, extra persons are evacuating from town.
Russia introduced that it was prepared to supply humanitarian corridors on Mar 9 (Wednesday) for civilians fleeing Kyiv in addition to 4 different cities, Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, and Mariupol.
However within the southeastern metropolis of Mariupol, one such humanitarian hall has already failed, with the metropolis’s mayor saying that Russian forces have been bombarding the realm the place some 200,000 individuals had gathered to depart. If Mariupol falls, it could permit Moscow to create a land hall to Crimea, which it already controls.
An airsrike has killed not less than 21 individuals, together with two kids, within the besieged north-eastern metropolis of Sumy. Ukraine’s deputy prime minister mentioned that 5,000 civilians have been evacuated from town on Tuesday.
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The United Nations mentioned that some two million individuals have already fled Ukraine since Russia launched its invasion.
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Ix Shen reveals state of affairs on the bottom in Ukraine with day by day IG movies
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