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Today in Focus

Saldo: Ukraine’s gangster governor – part 3

Today in Focus

The Guardian

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4.65.9K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

The liberation of Kherson city ended months of brutal Russian rule. But across the Dnipro River, occupation governor Volodymyr Saldo finds there is are still money-spinning opportunities to be found. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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0:00.0

This is the Guardian.

0:05.0

Today, when Her son is liberated by Ukrainian forces,

0:12.0

what does it mean for Vladimir Seldo?

0:15.0

The final part of our mini series on Ukraine's gangster governor. Before we start, just a warning, this episode contains descriptions of torture and violence.

0:34.0

The announcement came as a surprise.

0:37.0

Eight months after Russian troops had taken her son.

0:40.0

Eight months after Russian troops had taken her son. A Russian general stood on state television in front of a map.

0:48.0

For the case, it's a baron,

0:51.0

to pay her a regular kidney problem. And declared Russian forces

0:55.0

Russian forces were withdrawing from the city of Herson.

0:59.0

And just like that, tens of thousands of Russian forces occupying the city were gone.

1:10.0

At first, the Ukrainian army held back cautiously, like this was some kind of trap.

1:17.0

Ukrainian forces are yet to enter the provincial capital since the Russians announce on Wednesday they'd be withdrawing.

1:23.0

But after a few days, there they were, the liberators of Herson.

1:28.0

Tonight euphoria in Heron, a major Ukrainian city now free from Russian rule.

1:37.0

For the city's residents, this was the end of months of brutal Russian occupation.

1:43.4

Hugely emotional scenes here in the center of Kirsten.

1:47.6

The military are driving through, they're playing the national anthem,

1:50.8

and people are just running out. Tears in their eyes. This soldier

1:56.0

rushing to his grandma down on her knees, reunited after months apart.

2:13.5

But not everybody was celebrating. He'd risen and fallen and then risen again. But when Ukrainian troops poured into the city that he ruled in Russia's name, what happened

2:19.5

next to Vladimir Seldo?

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