Ukraine: After losing Kherson, Russia tries to destroy it
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Nobody knows where the next one will land, she said, but the constant bombardment was better than living under what she called Russian fascism. Up to 50 rockets are launched at the city each day, while as many as 100 hit the wider region, he said.A woman waves a Ukrainian flag following the liberation of Kherson from eight months of Russian occupation, Nov. 14, 2022, Kherson, Ukraine .
Another shell that struck around the same time pierced a nearby apartment block, punching a hole into the seventh floor. Two more hit the road and an empty lot.Even the Kherson Regional Children’s Hospital has been hit — three times. The Russians have been shelling a place that treats kids for wounds caused by Russian shelling.Half the hospital building is damaged, and 700 windows are broken, said the head doctor, Inna Holodnyak.
She said she had no doubt the attacks on the hospital were deliberate. The Russians were targeting it, she said. They held the city for eight months, and they know the building is a children’s hospital. Two weeks later, Yevheniia Mulika sat at the kitchen table in her fifth-floor apartment while her newborn Polina slept in a crib in the bedroom, indifferent to the boom of shelling outside.
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