After withdrawing from the city of Kherson on November 11, the Russians took up positions on the other side of the river. For more than a week, they have been bombarding the city, every day.
With our special correspondent in Kherson Clea Broadhurst
In Kherson, residents have been living for days with the shelling of the Russian forces. The latter have been installed on the other side of the river since their withdrawal on November 11. Rockets fell on the complex of buildings where Vyacheslav lives. “It was darts with stabilizers on the enddescribes the Ukrainian. It’s made to kill civilians because these darts fly straight, it’s like screws with spikes. »
At the bottom of a building that has almost burned down, he talks with his neighbor Igor. The latter evokes a macabre discovery following the bombings: “ An old lady has been ripped into a thousand pieces. We found his hand several houses away. » November 24, a strike of several rockets killed ten people in a residential area of the city.
“ We knew it, we saw what they did in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions »
The two men remained throughout the occupation in Kherson. Igor suspected that the Russians were going to punish them one way or another. “They wrote in their Telegram channels that those who did not leave the city with them would be considered traitors “, he explains.
Elena, hat pulled down over her ears, her shoulders raised, walks down the gutted building, whose broken windows lie on the ground. “We knew it, for eight years, we saw what they did in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, she declares. Old pro-Russian ladies said: “the Russians will come and there will be order here”. I told them: “when Kherson is liberated, you will see what will happen, we will be like Donetsk and Lugansk”, and it started. Under repeated bombardment, Elena says that every night she now falls asleep under a red sky.
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