After five months of occupation. Kherson waiting for liberation, but afraid of street battles and rocket revenge of the Russians - a local resident

Kherson, July 24, 2022 (photo: Reuters/Alexander Ermochenko) Kherson resident Anton Kovalenko told Radio NV, which dominates the mood in the city after five months of occupation by the Russian Federation. “People, on the one hand, are waiting for the liberation of Kherson, and on the other - they are very afraid of street battles, destruction and the fact that after leaving the Russians can take revenge and destroy the city with rockets. The moods about this are very worrying, ”Kherson said.

According to him, fear appears, because Ukrainians in the occupied territory are following the release of villages on the border with the Dnipropetrovsk region, and they notice that the settlements are later fired by the Russians. Since the beginning of March, Kherson and most of the region have been occupied by Russian troops.

Five months after the invasion, at the end of July, information about the destruction of Russian ammunition and other objects on the south uncontrolled Ukraine began to emerge. On the night of July 27, the defenders of Ukraine struck another blow on the Antonovsky Bridge in Kherson region. It is a strategic object that troops of the Russian Federation cross their equipment through the Dnieper.

The Kherson collaborator Cyril Stremousov reported that the Antonovsky bridge had received significant damage, and its movement is now impossible. In the operational command, the south was named strikes on the Antonov Bridge filigree and stated that the Armed Forces were kept under the control of strategically important logistics and transport routes that are critical for the occupiers.