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In the city of Kherson (Ukraine) and its surroundings, the war is wreaking havoc, both among the military and among the population, where the stigmata of the Russian occupation are still very strong.
In a hospital in Kherson (Ukraine), doctor Volodymyr Pihulvsky treats Ukrainians who are fighting in the counter-offensive in the east of the country. A soldier who has just arrived has been close to death. The bullet only hit his hand. “It is terrible to see the suffering of our soldiers. But the worst thing is to see the suffering of our country. The rest is our job. But to see the wounds of our men and how the war destroys their lives, it pains me, really“, he confides.
According to the Ukrainian authorities, it will only be a matter of days before the city of Kherson is liberated. It is currently the largest Ukrainian city under Russian occupation. In the village of Myrolyubivka, Russia was present for six months, before it was liberated last September by the Ukrainian army. Residents say they lived in terror. In July, a 75-year-old resident remembers going through a six-hour ordeal when Russian soldiers occupied her house. “When I opened the door, he immediately punched me in the face, I lost two teeth. Then he started kicking me all over, I was covered in blood“, she testifies.