Ukrainian city celebrates Russian exit yet faces huge rebuilding
for the third straight day Sunday, even as they took stock of the extensive damage left behind in the southern Ukrainian city by the Kremlin’s retreating forces.
With cellphone networks knocked out, Zaikina and others lined up to use a satellite phone connection set up for everyone’s use in the square, enabling them to swap news with family and friends for the first time in weeks. “I don’t understand what kind of people this is. I don’t know why they did it,” said resident Yevhen Teliezhenko, draped in a Ukrainian flag.“There is no better holiday than what’s happening now,” he declared.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy vowed to keep up the pressure on Russian forces, reassuring the people in Ukrainian cities and villages that are still under occupation.Ukraine’s retaking of Kherson was a significant setback for the Kremlin and the latest in a series of battlefield embarrassments.
“Russian military leadership is trying and largely failing to integrate combat forces drawn from many different organizations and of many different types and levels of skill and equipment into a more cohesive fighting force in Ukraine,” commented the Washington-based Institute for the Study of War, a think tank that tracks the conflict
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