Having lost Kherson, Russia is shelling it indiscriminately

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Serving no strategic purpose, the shelling seems only to be punitive. Inside the city there is a strained, almost surreal, kind of normality

, blue skies to grey. It is two weeks since Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s president, stood on Freedom Square in Kherson and; the jubilation has gone. Kherson is now under bombardment from Russians on the east side of the Dnieper river.

Over the weekend there were queues of cars several hundred long at the checkpoint leaving the city, but by Monday, the 28th, the line of cars had disappeared. Ukrainian authorities are evacuating patients from hospitals and organising trains and buses to take families with children to safety, lodging them in dormitories and kindergartens in the nearby cities of Mykolaiv and Odessa. Some people have taken their children out of the city and then returned to Kherson to work.

The city authorities have set up what they call “points of invincibility” throughout the city: rooms or tents with electrical outlets and internet from the Starlink satellite network, where residents can charge their mobile phones, get a cup of tea, warm up and call relatives. On the evening of November 26th, power was restored to a few streetlights for the first time and people came out of their homes to marvel and cheer at the unaccustomed blaze in the midst of an enveloping darkness.

As the crunch of incoming shells got louder and closer, the crowd outside waiting for bags of basic foodstuffs—macaroni, cooking oil, canned meat—did not move. In the courtyard, men were cutting up rolls of plastic packaging normally used for canned tomatoes to cover over windows that have been smashed in the blasts. In her district, Ms Chornenka says, 56 homes had been damaged by shelling over the past week. She scrolls through her phone to show pictures of wrecked and blackened balconies.

 

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War to the cowardly Russians means bombing children, women and civilians

You mean the jubilation is gone because they're back in poverty of the Kyiev regime

This is probably the most russian behavior a headline can portray

davidfrum Well you know what needs to be done with those Russians and there man-child leader.

Putin using tactics from Genghis Khan, to pretend to withdraw and attack thereafter.

Wait. There was a major battle in Kherson? Kherson was abandoned by Russian troops. No battle.

Did not lose Jerson. Never had it!

I thought climate change had scared all the rain from everywhere in the world. Who knew

russia is a terrorist state that threatens not only Europe but the whole world. Barbaric wars is in their DNA… Ukraine, Chechnya, Georgia, Syria, Libya, Mali, CAR…

Can you imagine what would happen when Ukraine returns 🔥? War is stupid!

When discriminately would be your clients advice and sooo much more economical.

The only way to end this invasion is for Ukraine to get weapons that can target cities inside Russia. Once Russians start scampering for safety and dying, the war and occupation of Ukraine will end. Nothing short of that will work.

And unfortunately it affected the whole world at different time period. Personally me, who's from India, has have the regular casualities. We are running to fix up our phone or laptop to get fixed but alas!!!

Russiais is criminal terrorist state and so are its citizens supporting the war of aggression, invasion and crime

It's a war not a play.

If Russia is going to shell territory it considers part of Russia, why not save a bunch of lives and shell the Kremlin?

War criminals be war criminaling.

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