Where just last week there was fear in Kherson, now there is an abundance of joy.
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, as winter bites down on barely heated residences. Russia's poisoned parting gifts were the destruction of key infrastructure and the deadly seeding of booby traps around the city.“Finally freedom!” said 61-year-old Tetiana Hitina, Teliezhenko’s wife."The city was dead." Roads leading into Kherson bear witness to the ferocity of the fighting — much of it largely unreported at the time because Ukraine had blacked out frontline news from the region to avoid giving useful intelligence to the Russians. For tens of kilometers on approach to the city, the war and its ravages have left not a building untouched.
Others worry about friends and acquaintances who were told to leave Kherson when Russian forces were beginning their weeks-long withdrawal. Tens of thousands of people were evacuated, ferried across the Dnieper and bused deeper into territory that Russia still holds.
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