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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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A resident of Kherson

‘A car goes by with a loudspeaker telling us to leave Kherson. We stay’

A woman walks in a street in Kherson last Monday
Kherson last Monday: people buy food in the morning; the streets are deserted by early afternoon. Photograph: Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters

More than eight months after Kherson’s capture by Russian soldiers, the city is heavy and gloomy. Everything is frozen, hidden. After 3pm, there are no people on the streets. In the morning they go out to buy groceries and then they sit at home.

Kherson is being robbed by the Russians. Everything is taken out: monuments to Suvorov, Ushakov, Potemkin and Margelov were removed from their pedestals; barges, fire engines, ambulances and office chairs. They break into apartments. Even the windows of the city hall have been removed. A total organised plunder of the city is under way. Cars carry loot to the river and from there they are transported by boats to the left bank.

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