Heaven to hell: Ukraine liberated Kherson, now it's under Russian attack
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- Опубліковано 29 бер 2023
- Kherson was liberated from Russian occupation in November 2022 by Ukrainian forces, sparking ecstatic scenes in the main square.
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But with Russian troops retreating just over the Dniepro river, joy has quickly turned to nightmare, with the city suffering daily bombardment by mortars, missiles and even tank shells. Simply surviving each day has become a matter of luck and many civilians have fled.
The Guardian's Luke Harding and Christopher Cherry speak to remaining residents to find out what life is like among the awful booms of artillery fire, and why they have chosen to stay.
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Vasili is a true man. He did not persecute his friend on the phone. He asked what he wanted, mainly to be coy of course, but then wished his friend well regardless of the situation and his lack of response.
Nice report.
So you think that call was a nice birthday present? As if Shura could know where Ukrainian soldiers are hiding in Kherson area...
I could never do that. It would become lifelong hatred.
It's a lie
@@jerekuusrainen6475 I can tell you one thing, even if soldiers were hiding in the children’s hospital, they wouldn’t still be hiding there after it’s already been shelled twice. Vasili is a man of true restraint, if a former “friend” was attempting to justify my civilian neighbors and relatives being indiscriminately shelled by cluster munitions and whatever artillery they can find, the kindest words I’d probably be able to muster would be something to the effect of “I hope the same happens to you and your descendants remember you as a complacent coward who helped carry out the war crimes of a sadistic oligarchic dictator committed against his own comrades”
Surreal call. Why should that Russian's birthday be joyous when his country is wrecking misery upon their neighbors and former friends?
RIP Little child.
Unfortunately that breakdown between Vitaly and Shura strikes me as all too common. It has amazed and appalled me over my life how people I considered close and trustworthy have proved the exact opposite when something happened that challenged their interests.
“it is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” - Upton Sinclair.
This is my all time favourite quote for a reason. It is bitterly disappointing but if you understand this fact the world makes an awful lot more sense.
It's been a long time since I've read Sinclair. That quote is quite appropriate.
I've learned of this when I was in the 3rd grade. Money controls the world.
@@Kopie0830 and murica is desperately trying to control the money. Then we have WAR
The Ukrainian himself said that the Russians cannot even receive images, as the RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT controls the media, so why would that be Shura's "interest"?
Luke Harding had a conection with Julian Assange as you knowe. Look howe that played out.
What a cool dude. Stuff blown to bits and he's concerned about others and hospitality. 12:12
Your city is not dying. It's just winter and we have no idea when spring will come. We pray for your safe passage. Slava 🇺🇦 🇺🇦
Spring comes when Russian troops return
@@user-rd1hz9zj9l return home :)
@@user-rd1hz9zj9l Wont return, most will die in ukraine.
@@user-rd1hz9zj9l orc you're getting wrecked
@@MultiJejje Nope......the Counter-Offensive has failed
0:25 No matter what happens in the war he has a heart of a child and strength of a lion 🦁 ❤️❤️❤️
Not at all
Yes he does 💙💛
I want to express my condolences to all those who died in this war.
Take care of your loved ones. ❤️
Хочу выразить соболезнования всем погибшим в этой войне.
Берегите своих близких.❤️
The mongols taught imperial russians well in whatever concerns cruelty, mischief and cowardice…
Now Mongols are nobodies. Russia is the mighty one.
The mongols? You mean modern history? The same is done by violent governments across the world. Mongolia has been relatively peaceful for centuries, compared to Russia, the US, Germany, Israel, Britain
This hurts to watch. I've been in Kherson three times, and I remember this city as bright and lively. The amount of damage done to Kherson is shocking. I can't imagine what it was like to live through all those atrocities.
The horrible selfishness of Sura, the Russian "friend", who complains about his Ukrainian friend who is under constant shelling by Russians forgetting his birthday is really nauseating. He clearly does not deserve Vasilij as a friend. Such a kind-hearted man ❤
The russians must be held responsible.
Сразу после вас
How about we stop speculating and just ensure the freedom and the continuance of democracy in the world.
Dear Kherson: ❤️❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏🇺🇦💪
You say that like it's so simple! But what are you advocating? Just, us, the forces of freedom n democracy, stop ponderously deliberating, and get out there with the guns and defeat the bad people so the others can live happily ever after!?
I don't disagree about the overarching vision. But you are urging a material action.
Yet I'd suggest that carrying that from merely voicing the theme, onto fruition, it's a gap requiring more than just stating an idealised goal and then saying go...
Love & Grace to Kherson May Everyone Be Safe.
thank you from Kharkiv for the report
Top notch journalism at its finest. Luke Harding is an absolute legend!
I'm a foreigner and my home Kherson been living there for 6 years now I'm in Poland
I used to live in the city of Dnipro and now I’m in Canada I hope that you and I can go back home and our mother Ukraine will win
Can’t wait for this war to end. So many lives taken 😢
Ask Putin to leave his forces from Ukraine then.
@@yuusukeAre you even comparing a civil war with a brutal invasion?
They could live happily under Russian rule, instead they prefer death and destruction. I have no sympathy to people who say "we would rather die, than live together with Russia". I'm like yeah... ok. Then may you rest in peace my friend.
@@user-rd1hz9zj9l Say thanks to imperialistic Russians that invaded Ukraine in 2014 and 2022.
@@user-rd1hz9zj9l you're the one who invaded an independent country, not british or americans (this time)
"War is war. But it should be on the battlefield." No truer words have ever been spoken.
Courageous Khersonians!✌️
😢 So sorry for the innocent citizens and children of Ukraine. Russia must stop this mindless war at once.
The problem is that Russia does not want to end the war on Ukraine's terms, so there will most likely be a lot of innocent bloodshed on both sides.
@@Lalala33331 Agree. Putin is a completely crazy, unrepentent madman (pardon my strong language).
@@vishaalbhatnagar3924 Putin is not crazy, he is a bad person who acts purely in his own interests, just like many other politicians in the world.
That's all I'll write.
All the best.
@@Ridethebomb777 you dont negociate with a guy that took your lands and ask for more. Ukraine never saw prosperity with Russia. and when Ukraine decided to try with Europe they got invaded. This is an illegal war of agression
@@borali26 So, what you are saying is that you condone Ukraine shelling its own people in the Donbas .... and that Russia should never have come to their aid .... is that right ??
Hoping your city is safe and peaceful again soon.
Bro... his Russian 'friend' is just on another level. wow.
The Russian people have entirely stuck their heads in the sand concerning this war. When Reality comes knocking, the Revolution in Russia will be swift and deadly...
Stay strong Ukraine in your fight for your freedom 🇺🇦🇵🇹💪🏼🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺💛💙🇺🇲🇬🇧
The Russian will be fertilizers for Ukraine land.
The sooner the better.
Far more Ukrainians have already been turned into dust. It is beautiful.
@@carolwilliams8511 The sooner western hegemony ends, the better.
@@cosmicwanderer891You mean "Russian imperialism", right?
Putin needs to go the same way as Sadaam.
Did Saddam killed as many civilians as J Bush?
Or Khaddafi...
And zelensky the sale way as Mussolini
@@MANUPETAIN2218 Hahaha.
@@MANUPETAIN2218 Tu portes bien ton nom toi.
Спасибо союзникам за помощь ❤️
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We are NOT going away 💙💛
So pleased to see the you reporting factual news, keep it up
My heart goes out to all Ukrainians fighting for their freedom from Russian imperialism, Putin and his USSR fantasies.
American Imperialism started this war, stop listening to the TV news people.
Ukrainians are staging terrorist attacks on peaceful objects in Russia and Belarus. Peaceful areas of Donbass are being shelled daily simply because they have a lot of shells. Their desire is to cause maximum damage. This is the meaning of the Ukrainian sect. They talk about hate all the time.
If the Russians are just across the river and shelling Kherson daily, why have 1 or 2 HIMARS not been brought in to eliminate the threat? That’s easily within HIMARS range.
Because the missles are rare
a massive response.
The orcs took out all the furniture ... Well, they just rammed the truck, put the furniture there and took it away. XD
My great selut for Ukraine heroes
Tragic and we need to support the courageous people of Ukraine.
Excellent reporting. Wish there was a way for Russians to see this. There must be some people there with empathy.
They are told that it is Ukrainian artillery that is bombing Kherson.
They don't care. Realize this already
@@Danielklark нет, нам так не говорят. Мы прекрасно понимаем, что раз там украинские войска, то войска РФ их обстреливает. Это логично. Логично и то, что Сумы, Бучу, Донецк, Горловку и другие города, где стояла или стоит армия России - обстреливает Украина. Ведь так? Глупо с этим спорить! Но почему тогда украинцы и Европа не говорят, что убивали своих же людей, а это сделали «орки»? Что за лицемерие?
@@tanya_nechso who's making it up? One of the main things I've been reading from presumably russian bots is how Ukraine is apparently shelling eastern... Ukraine, hence why Russian invasion is apparently "justfied" to protect Ukrainians and Russians living there from the """""neonazi government of Ukraine"""""".
Are you saying this is not being told in Russia and only told to Europeans? That's interesting (and very weird)
You're absolutely the best journalist on earth. Tanks for all your reports and the new book.❤❤❤
When surrounded in a city, declare it is of no importance - Sun Tzu
The Russians left it...the Ukrainians brought in troops and artillery.
Rip to everyone who died in the war…
0:25 💀💀
Bravo ukraine ❤❤❤❤
Glory to Ukraine
Яибы еще добавил, что и военные объекты в украине не являются какими-то "законными целями", Украина не на кого не нападала, мы обороняемся, и это наши защитники на нашей территории, такие же граждане Украины как и мирные люди.
Донбасс так же ни на кого не нападал. И ветераны на 9 мая спокойно ходили к мемориалам.
А в Донецк каждый день идут прилеты по гражданским объектам. Просто потому что на украине много снарядов.
@@Dirtmiy конечно, так как донбасс это донецкий угольный бассейн, который считаеться донецкой, луганской и частьб днепропетровской области в то числе и часть ростовской области , донбасс по факту не является каким либо государством, что бы нападать на кого либо.
И причем здесь ветераны ?
Doesn't look very safe in Liberated Kherson...
Liberated you say, Guardian? Tell us the real news, I say.
kremlin bot
yeah russians have to go home and stop these bombings
Excellent presentation, excellent reporting, thanks. 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦Salford uk
people can withstand everything ...
How about UK media covering Palestinian life under Israeli occupation?
Western using tactic and method of Special war
Whatabout ?!! WHATABOUT ?!!! I'm sure if you search you will find.
Everything was going so well, and then 200000 heavily armed Russian hove into sight
Zelenskyy didn't know a word of Ukrainian when he took power.
he is a CIA spy, elections were conned
It's like deja Vu all over again.
Thanks for the Closed Captioning, only in Russian, 'The Guardian' and 'UA-cam' ('Google') Top notch work... >_
You can see some of Zelensky's Kvartal 95 translated on the UA-cam channel Yasmin Ali Mentor💙🎹💛
Ничего не прячется, все выступления 95 квартал в свободном доступе. То же самое не могу сказать о выступлениях президента России , который за 20 лет наговорил , а потом и натворил сами знаете чего.
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Vitaliy and Shura were friends before the war and hopefully remain friends.
Russia agreed to Ukraine sovereignty.
russia guaranteed to protect Ukraine in 1996 as well, if you look at it like "russia = lies" then everything makes sense, simply liers all day
Ukrainian sovereignty was based on certain conditions. After the Maidan, they were ignored. The result is the loss of Crimea, long negotiations and war.
Triller film
@The Guardian Tolong menambahkan subtitle Bahasa Indonesia /Please add Indonesian subtitles 🙏🙏
impossible
The red cross does not leave the safety of the city center, ride around in expensive suvs, help is needed outside of the city but most importantly the red cross also helps out the Russian occupiers...
The Red Cross are supposed to be neutral in all wars. No matter what side a person is on, if someone needs medical attention, they are sworn to help.
Crazy… Russian soldiers paid for the coffee… Mind warp..
What a waste.
Of what
🇺🇸🇺🇦ALAVA UKRAINE🇺🇦🇺🇸
This video is just like scenes of the London blitz, except in the blitz films it was indiscriminate bombing but here all the houses are well spaced out and each house seams to have its fare share of the available shelling. It’s definitely targeted I can’t see any lines of craters of sticks of bombs from aircraft. This is almost proof of gentrification or more likely attempted genocide of Ukrainians from their own country.
Russia does not bomb civilians. There are attacks on strategic objects. Sometimes the Ukrainian air defense deflects the trajectory of the projectiles and then they fall into buildings. There are also cases when shells are deflected for another reason. If the Ukrainian government cared about people, it would have carried out the evacuation of civilians from the combat zone, as Russia did in Kherson.
Bridge layers are coming!!!
Grauniad propagandised hopium
is he talking in Russian or Ukrainian i cant tell
Can't the capable Ukrainian army set up ant-battery artillery to hit back?
i guess they dont want to smash locals, no russian style
@@iggvec5769 00:40 Have you watched the video?
Ukraine does fire back. But is that the best use for the limited numbers of shells it has? These are deecisions the professional military leaders need to take, the like's of me sitting in western Europe at a keyboard can't know such things.
@@carelgoodheir692 true
Northern Ireland must be independent
"Ukraine above all" 👀
Red cross workers are brave
Viva kherson! Viva 🇺🇦 Ucrania libre, soberana e independiente.
DON'T EVER BELIEVE THE GUARDIAN
Платили рублями. какая жестокость 🤣
Ну Просто ЗВЕРИ!
was there no more bulletproof vest and helmet for the guy you paid a bit of money to show his dangerous city to you
If there is no soldiers in nearby areas, why can't Russian army come and inspect the area. Just asking🤔
Because they are on the other side of the river and they bombed the crossings. Also there is some Ukrainian army presence in Kherson, with special forces and artillery men. Crossing the river is completely suicidal and none of the sides have done it.
Also Kherson is one of the few places where AFU has air superiority given the fact that their air defense bateries are far behind the frontline in Crimea and Melitopol.
Similar killing of civilians happened in Iraq when the US invaded it
Zneužívanie detí. V mene koho.
Nuremberg Trials-2 !!! Ruscism
He speaks Russian . How come?
A lot of people in Eastern Ukraine are Bilingual or speak Russian first.
Because he is Russian living in the land of Rus. Historically, Ukraine was just a region, not a country.
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All Ukrainians interviewed speaking Russian.
It does seem strange the interaction with the Russian friend . If I was told by one of my best friends that something like that was happening to him and why I would belive him.
Ты далеко, и потому не понимаеш, эти люди жили в одной стране 70 лет, долго писать, подумай сам , все развалилось в 1990 , Москва была столицей. Щас феномен такой, что в России даже пенсионер с пенсией 300 долларов считает, что все бывшие республики Советского Союза должны обратно присоединиться к России, никто не может выжить без России. Все , кто не хочет присоединиться , это огромное оскорбление, будем бить в морду, пока не полюбите нас. Не уверен, что ты сразу это поймешь, подумай.
@@TheMohomoho Почему 70, а не 300? Это нарратив пропаганды что в России про Украину думали, люди везде живут своими заботами. но вот пришел момент, когда перед режимом повисла возможность новой Югославии. О гарантиях не договорились и пошел большой конфликт. все они любят деньги, значит риск не вступить оценили выше, чем сохранить статус-кво.
@@TheMohomoho какая глупость
Putin is jealous he can’t do this 0:27
Finland has joined Nato & Sweden is joining NATO soon and Millions of professional soldiers from 43 NATO/Friends countries They wanted to join because of Putin aggression to small democratic countries
This soldier not want died for Usa establishment man
My heart is with Ukraine and the Russian opposition.
Береги свое глупое сердце, ибо оно тебе хрень говорит
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Can Ukraine evacuate the civilians?
Everyone that wanted to leave already left
زنده باد اکراین زنده باد ازادی
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You have enough time to evacuate all citizens from front line why you dont make ?
Is this about Kherson or her son?
The blind and visually impaired have no idea what’s being said. Can you please add English dubs? I had to stop watching as I had no clue what was going on.
These Ukrainian women need not to be on the frontline to save lives.
You have got stuck in the past, people.
hey atleast they payed the coffe
"waiting for you to wish me a happy birthday"? what in the world is wrong with these people 🤦
🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦l,ukrainien fait partie de l,Europe et le monde libre doit soutenir le peuple ukrainien ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
SLAVA UKRAINE 🇺🇦
$LAVE UKRAINE
☠️🇬🇧🇮🇱🇺🇸☠️
@@lw1zfog don’t embarrass yourself Ivan 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Orcs of World of Warcraft
Russian "civilization". Ironic that the driver speaks Russian.
they are just trying to draw ukraine forces from bakhmut
😂 man only a tiny amount of Ukraines forces are near Bakhmut.
Ukraine didn't liberate anything, the Russian army just WITHDREW from there. :)
flew in panic u mean
It's not mutually exclusive.
Actually Russia retreated from Kherson, Ukraine claims they liberated it.🤣🤣🤣🤣
Cringe
Who is cringing now🤣🤣
They killed russians while the took their city back. slava ukraini
No difference. The retreated then the ukrainians liberated the city.