The city was shelled by Russian artillery while the Ukrainians were able to repel and destroy multiple forces attempting to move into the town.

[7][8] According to Human Rights Watch, on March 6, 2022, Russian forces bombarded an intersection on a road of Irpin which was used by civilians to flee.

[10] On 28 March, Mayor Oleksandr Markushyn announced that all of Irpin was fully recovered by the Ukrainian forces.

[12] On 31 August 2022, the Declaration on Cooperation was signed in Irpin by the National Republican Army and Russian Volunteer Corps in an aim to overthrow the regime of Vladimir Putin.

[citation needed] On 24 August 2023, the Ruta Kindergarten [zh] was opened under a collaborative project by Lithuania and Taiwan.

The most notable are Peremoha Industrial Complex of Irpin (bricks, reinforced concrete components, heat insulation and sound proofing materials), Irpinmash (gears for agricultural industry), Perun Trading Firm (books), KATECH-electro Private Commercial and Manufacturing Company (cabling and wiring products), Irpintorfmash factory (construction materials), and a furniture factory, just to name some.

As of the 2001 Ukrainian census, Irpin had a population of 100,390 inhabitants, making it the second-largest city in the entire Kyiv Oblast after Bila Tserkva.

The population is overwhelmingly Ukrainian, yet sizeable Russian, Belarusian, Polish and Moldovan minorities reside in the city.