Gone are the acres of jubilant crowds that filled Freedom Square with blue and yellow Ukrainian flags when the Russians were driven out. Now the crack-crunch of Russian artillery eating into the city echoes around the plaza.
The harvest of victory in the fall has been a bitter winter. In the previous 48 hours, Kherson had endured more than 130 strikes by rockets, artillery, mortars and even direct tank fire across the Dnieper River from Russian forces. Four people were killed in the same period, another dozen or more wounded. Several warehouses were also set ablaze. One of them stored fireworks – bizarre goods to store amid shelling.
She’d moved back to the city because she couldn’t afford to live anywhere else. “I came back because where I was living I ran out of work. And I couldn’t pay my rent anymore. And I came back home because it’s my home. The Russians were bombarding the town, she said, “For revenge. Probably revenge, because they ran away.” The revenge was so intense at the time she was speaking that emergency crews of firefighters and medics spoke to CNN from a bunker in a secret location.
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