Putin’s humiliation, Kherson’s liberation: Inside an occupied city
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The Times
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🗓️ 18 November 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Ukrainian troops forced Putin’s war machine into a chaotic exit from the city of Kherson last Friday. After eight months of Russian occupation, it was free.
But as the Russians fled, stories of brutality and torture poured out. What scars has the occupation left on its remaining inhabitants, what poison has it left behind – and how can a devastated city return to something like normal life?
This episode contains descriptions of torture.
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| 0:38.0 | In Europe, we hadn't seen a metropolis taken in war since 1945. |
| 0:43.0 | Russian forces today captured their first major city. |
| 0:47.0 | The mayor of Herzan saying Russian troops are now in control there. |
| 0:54.0 | It fell in the war's early days as to the north that great Russian armoured column was approaching Kiev. |
| 1:04.0 | Remember that? But now, after eight long months, her son is free. |
| 1:10.0 | Ukrainian troops force President Putin's war machine into a chaotic exit last Friday. |
| 1:16.0 | The joys of her son's liberation keep on giving. |
| 1:22.0 | Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine. |
| 1:30.0 | He's in the beginning of the end of the war. |
| 1:37.0 | Her son, Port City on Ukraine's south coast, |
| 1:40.0 | was home to over a quarter of a million people before the war, roughly the size of Newcastle. |
| 1:46.0 | Hopefully one day its inhabitants will all be back living in a peaceful country. |
| 1:51.0 | But for the moment, freedom has come at a price. |
| 1:54.0 | Russia's retribution has been brutal with multiple missile strikes hitting various Ukrainian cities. |
| 2:01.0 | 85 missiles, according to President Zelensky, |
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