Elissa Slotkin tweeted the following:
"6/ Seeing the destruction up close & hearing the pain in the voices of regular people who live in Irpin was a powerful reminder of why our support matters. The Russians brutality was worse than I had anticipated, and it is not something that I will forget."Read on Twitter
Here are other recent tweets from Elissa Slotkin:
"5/ Residents recounted their shock at the Russians hatred, telling us about how Russian tanks ran over Ukrainian corpses over and over, stopping only after they had been ground into the pavement."Read on Twitter
"4/ In another part of town that featured apartments & homes blown to bits, we saw very clearly how Russian forces shelled civilian areas indiscriminately: they hit schools, infrastructure, and a stadium with no regard for who might be inside."Read on Twitter
"3/ The first stop on our tour was the mangled remains of a bridge that came to symbolize the Russians disregard for civilians, after they shelled it while thousands of Ukrainians were using the bridge to evacuate in a negotiated humanitarian corridor."Read on Twitter
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