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That is the closing bus out of the final place Ukraine holds on the street to Kherson — the primary and only major city Russia has taken.

Villagers have standing room solely, whereas the aged have been rushed right into a van.

“Grandpa, we’re right here,” shouts the daughter of 1 native, Viktor, from the bus doorway, as he sits just a little bewildered within the van. The panic is actual; at any second the shelling may resume, a bombardment that residents say has littered the southern Ukrainian village of Posad-Pokrovske with cluster munitions.

Because the convoy of two autos hits the pockmarked street out towards the town of Mykolaiv, shells as soon as once more tar the horizon with a plume of black smoke. Sat behind the van, Vitali breaks down, utilizing his dirty, orange workman’s gloves to wipe tears from his eyes.

Airstrikes, grad rockets, cluster munitions — the residents recall two weeks of intense bombardment to which the material of Posad-Pokrovske bears witness.

The Ukrainian marines holding Posad-Pokrovske, the final settlement earlier than the Russian positions that defend Kherson’s airport, stay imprecise about their positions.

However their aim is evident: the airport exterior Kherson, used as a Russian base, that’s already being closely battered by Ukrainian shelling.

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