“Thank God we have been liberated. Kherson is not a traitor city. No matter what they say.” In the center of Kherson, the celebrations are still ongoing, days after the city was officially retaken by the Ukrainian military from its Russian occupiers.
Cars and trucks drive past a destroyed military vehicle on the road in Kherson region on November 13, 2022, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
In the exceptionally flat surrounding fields, numerous Russian 220mm rockets, fired in salvos of 16 from Russian BM-27 “Hurricane” multiple rocket launchers, have embedded themselves in the earth, pointing skyward like lethal scarecrows. Depending on the exact muntion fired, each rocket can scatter as many as 312 antipersonnel landmines or 30 cluster bombs, leaving the surrounding farmland saturated with unexploded ordnance that will likely take years, possibly decades to fully clear.
Ukrainians wrapped in the blue and yellow flag asked anyone dressed in camouflage — and many who were not — to sign their names on their flags, like football fans trying to get the entire team to sign a replica jersey. An antique Ukrainian car, with a big flag flying outside its window, drove laps of the square blasting German electronic dance music from its open windows.
In front of the regional administration building, the Ukrainian government had installed a mobile phone mast, hooked up to a SpaceX “Starlink” satellite internet system, to provide a bubble of network reception over a few blocks. Generators provided power to charge devices, giving Kherson’s remaining residents the ability to contact friends and relatives on the outside world, the first opportunity many of them will have had for weeks, maybe months.
Evidence that Kherson was until recently an unwilling part of what Russian President Vladimir Putin considers his dominion is everywhere. Countless large billboards display Russian propaganda advocating a “yes” vote in the staged referendum, and expounding the benefits of “rejoining” Russia. Many have now been defaced or destroyed, but many that remained out of the reach of the locals remain intact.
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