Flanked by minefields, with the deadly percussion of shelling in the background, we made our way cautiously into recently liberated Kherson.
This was November 2022, in the southeastern corner of Ukraine, where Ukrainian forces had launched a successful counteroffensive against Russia to reclaim land lost in Moscow’s full-scale invasion. At the time, it was the latest in a string of stunning wins for the Ukrainians, who, against the odds, were pushing Russia back.
