This is the Guardian.

Today,

Herson is liberated.

What next for the war in Ukraine?

The Ukrainian President treated this as a moment to save her.

I'm happy we are here, Herson.

We are simply in a green puffer jacket and combat trousers.

Vladimir Zelensky ambled through the center of Herson, a city that had for eight months

been under Russian control.

The people, people, waited for Ukraine and army to grow our soldiers for all of us.

Where Ukrainian people had been tortured, tens of thousands forced from their homes, where

everything they owned from cars down to their children's toys had been ransacked by Russian

troops.

On Thursday, those troops were finally sent back.

And the Ukrainian people reclaimed their cities.

A Ukrainian soldier walked among the crowds.

In one arm, he cradled a watermelon, the fruit that has come to symbolize this region

that has continued to grow green and plump as this bloody destructive war has gone on.

We enjoyed, he said, for our future.

Herson, which is in the south of Ukraine, bordering Crimea, is the only regional capital

the Russian forces had taken in this conflict.

And they're losing it, President Zelensky said, marked the beginning of the end of the

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