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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By Elizabeth Piper and Viktoriia Lakezina

Residents flee Ukraine's Kherson after Russian strikes and warnings

Local residents are seen a during an evacuation effort at a bus station in the outskirts of Kherson, Ukraine May 4, 2023. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

It was a warning by her daughter that persuaded Alina Fil to leave her home in the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson early on Thursday after another night of Russian shelling.

Fil was one of dozens of Kherson residents who headed to the local bus station to catch minibuses out of the city where at least 23 civilians were killed on Wednesday in attacks that hit a train station, a hypermarket and residential buildings.

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