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| Subject: Statism is Slavery: 'They shoot at anyone who tries to leave.' Ukrainians describe terror of living under Russian occupation Sat Mar 05, 2022 8:54 pm | |
| A volley of machine-gun fire erupted just as Andriy Abba's family raised a toast to celebrate his 30th birthday in Kherson. Wine glass in hand, he rushed with his parents and younger brother to the basement.
Outside, Russian troops were in the final throes of occupying their city -- the first to fall to Moscow since its bloody invasion began a week ago. As the day wore on, Abba said, the rattling of bullets and thuds of explosion began to fade. At around midnight, silence descended on the city. "And that's when we knew," Abba told CNN. "It was very sad." Kherson, a key port city on the Black Sea, in southern Ukraine, was overrun by Russian forces in the early hours of Wednesday, after days of heavy bombardment and shelling. The Ukrainian flag was still hoisted on government buildings, and the mayor of the city, Ihor Kolykhaiev, remained in his post. On Saturday, Kolykhaiev announced that Russian troops were everywhere, and the city of nearly 300,000 people was without power and water, and in desperate need of humanitarian aid. Kolykhaiev said that the Russian forces had "settled in" to the city, and showed no signs of leaving.
.https://edition.cnn.com/2022/03/05/europe/ukraine-kherson-russian-occupation-cmd-intl/index.html
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