"The liberation of Kherson by Kyiv troops more than a month ago hasn’t brought peace of mind nor a feeling of security to residents of the southern Ukrainian city. Moscow launched a missile strike on the city Saturday morning, killing at least eight people and injuring another 58, with 18 of the injured were in serious condition, according to local officials. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other Kyiv officials published graphic pictures of burning cars and people lying in blood on the streets. ... Bridget Brink, the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, called Saturday’s assault ‘another brutal attack by Russia on recently-liberated Kherson. Truly horrific, especially on Christmas Eve’. Kherson, which had a pre-war population of about 300,000, became a target for Russian troops after their withdrawal from the city and other settlements on the western bank of the Dnipro River to the eastern bank in November in an attempt to avoid being cut off by the artillery of advancing Ukrainian troops. ...”
Intensified daily strikes force civilians to choose between risking their lives staying in Kherson or leaving the city for safer Kyiv-controlled areas of the country
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