“Up to 700 attacks with drones weekly. Reuters journalists have published a report from the “most dangerous city of Ukraine” on March 24, 21:33 Share: A resident passes by an apartment building that the Russians attacked by Kabami (photo: Reuters/Valentyn Ogirenko) Kherson, which is the largest -inventory of Russian. According to the head of Kherson Ova Alexander Proudin, in the city a weekly record from 600”, – WRITE ON: ua.news
A resident passes by an apartment building that the Russians attacked by Kabam (photo: Reuters/Valentyn Ogirenko)
Kherson, which is the largest settlement in the area of reach of Russian artillery and drones, is experiencing increasingly intense attacks. According to the head of the Kherson Ova Alexander Proudin, in the city every week is recorded from 600 to 700 beats of drones.
Reuters journalists visited the city and talked with local residents.
64-year-old Sergei lies in a hospital with a tied stump. He said that he went to work when he was struck by a grenade, dropped from the drone, which was driven by the Russian military from the opposite bank of the Dnieper.
“There will be no peace until they are on that bank of the river. It will be constant terror, constant shelling. We need to knock them out of there, there is no other way, ”the man says.
Sergei also remembered how he noticed the drone.
“I jumped to the tree, but he tore my foot, tore everything, ”he said.
On the other bed in the ward was 30-year-old games. He was also injured by a grenade that was thrown from the drone. In his case, it happened when he walked the street in search of mobile communications, as Russian shelling damaged the cellular towers. Igor hopes that the ceasefire will work.
“I do not want other people to be brought to the hospital in this condition, ”he said, pointing to his leg, the bones of which were fastened with metal rods.
Igor added that he believes that US President Donald Trump “It will complete the war this year, as promised, and we will have peace. “
Nearly 300,000 people lived in Kherson, but now the population has fallen to 60 thousand. From March to November 2022, the Russian occupation forces were arrested and tortured by many residents, according to local. After the Armed Forces have been ousted by Russian troops from the city, the Russians are constantly firing Kherson.
As most battles take place in villages and small cities, Kherson is the largest settlement in the area of reach of Russian artillery and battle drones – because of which it is called the most dangerous city of Ukraine.
“They terrorize the population, ”says the head of the Kherson Ova Alexander Proudin.
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According to him, the Russian military is regularly observed through the onboard chambers of civilians who do their business and then attack them.
Due to the threat of Russian drones, the 38-year-old driver of the Kherson City Bus Maxim Dyak sits behind the wheel in the bulletproof vest and helmet.
The bus he drives ten times attacked grenades, and five of these attacks occurred when he was driving. The broken side of the bus was closed by a sheet of plywood, but it continues to work, even when drones are circling over his head.
“It’s very scary, especially when young children are on the bus, ”he said.
The medical institution, which is treated with the wounded Sergei and Igor since November 2022, has suffered 21 strokes from the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, said the chief doctor Viktor Korolenko.
“You know, I very much want it to end … Our doctors are psychologically burning under fire, ”Korolenko said, adding that many of his colleagues were forced to move to the hospital after their homes were destroyed by Russian shelling. However, he plans to stay in Kherson.
61-year-old Tatiana Kudas, who made purchases in the local market, says that the city is very dangerous.
“They bomb us even more, ”the woman said emotionally. She explained that she would take better risk of life in Kherson than he would go somewhere, where people will take her as a stranger.
“I will stay on my land, and let it be, ”she added.