A year after its liberation, Kherson still knows fear—and defiance
Russia continually lobs shells at the Ukrainian city
THE RUSSIANS are gone, with their billboards, their roubles and their savagery. So are the flood waters, which submerged parts of Kherson after the collapse of the Nova Kakhovka dam in June, probably thanks to Russian sabotage, upstream on the Dnieper river. Supermarkets are fully stocked once again. Canned food from Crimea and baby formula that reeked of plastic are gone from the shelves, and prices have returned to normal.
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This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline “Free under fire”
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