In Kherson, Ukrainians live under Russian strikes
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A building hit by a strike on November 24, 2022 in Kherson, Ukraine.
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After withdrawing from the city of Kherson last 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.
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With our special correspondent in Kherson
Clea Broadhurst
.
In Kherson, residents have been living
with shelling from Russian forces
for days .
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 at the end
, describes 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 bombardments: “
An old lady was shredded into a thousand pieces.
We found his hand several houses away.
On November 24,
a multiple rocket strike 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 regions of Donetsk and Lugansk,
she says.
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.
► To read also: War in Ukraine: in bombarded Kherson, those who leave and those who return
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