“Kherson is now on the front line”, and the target of Russian attacks, confirms Dmytro Pletenchuk, head of public affairs for the city of Kherson. “The artillery duels continue” around the city, he adds. The Ukrainian army seems to have undertaken to bring its heavy weapons closer to the city to hit the Russian positions beyond the Dnieper.
Indeed, images obtained from the 59th motorized infantry brigade “Yakov Handziuk”, of the Ukrainian armed forces, show the violence of the fighting. “We have expelled the ‘Rashists’ (Editor’s note, the words Russians and Fascists, intertwined) from Kherson, we are pushing them further, beyond the bank of the Dnieper river”, declare the officers of this artillery section in full stock.
After being occupied for eight months by the Russian armed forces and liberated on November 10, Kherson is now targeted from the other bank of the Dnieper, the river which borders the city. And for good reason, the Russians positioned themselves further east to be able to hit the Ukrainian forces.
The city is not left out: its oil terminal was bombed this Saturday by a Russian strike. Kherson airport is in ruins. ” I’m afraid. The bombs are now falling every hour,” says Serguei Goudym, the chief engineer of the oil depot, who is busy assessing the damage inflicted on his installations. ” I will stay. I have nowhere to go”.