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Once a cinema and temporary home for a local NGO, this building in Kherson was shelled in December (Photo: EUobserver)

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Kherson — a city under siege on Ukraine's 1,000km frontline

by Nikolaj Nielsen, Mykolaiv, Ukraine,
Once a cinema and temporary home for a local NGO, this building in Kherson was shelled in December (Photo: EUobserver)

A war of attrition is entrenched along Ukraine's 1,000km frontline. But in the south-east, Kherson — a city where Russian forces are just across the Dnipro River — it remains a siege.

Throughout the day from Wednesday into Thursday (1 February), it was hit 64 times, said Kherson official Oleksandr Prokudin, in a Telegram post.

During a morning visit by EUobserver, also on Thursday, the city had an uneasy calm. The sun was out and t...

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