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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