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Ukrainians in Kherson wait for loved ones to cross frontline river
Ukrainian families waited in bitter cold on Sunday for their loved ones to cross from the Russian-held bank of the Dnipro River to Kherson, a city that since Ukraine recaptured it from Russian forces last month has been under heavy shelling.
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Serhii and Kataryna with their son Artem, Sheriff the dog and Barsik the cat wait for an evacuation transport, after Russia's military retreat from Kherson, at the central bus station in Kherson, Ukraine November 24, 2022. (Reuters /Murad Sezer)
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krainian families waited in bitter cold on Sunday for their loved ones to cross from the Russian-held bank of the Dnipro River to Kherson, a city that since Ukraine recaptured it from Russian forces last month has been under heavy shelling.
Military officials in the southern Ukrainian region of Kherson on Saturday warned fighting in the area could intensify and said they would temporarily lift a ban on crossings to help the evacuation of citizens on the Russian-occupied territory on the east bank.
Under the three-day amnesty which began on Saturday, Ukrainians living in villages across the river can traverse the Dnipro during daylight hours and to a designated point.
But as the amnesty's second day neared its end, media quoted officials at the Kherson city council as saying that Russian fire had killed a woman who had been crossing the Dnipro together with her husband in a boat. The husband was unhurt.
There were no other reported crossings of the river.
Around 20 people waited gloomily with a group of soldiers and an ambulance at Kherson's river port, to the constant sound of shelling nearby.
Olena, 40, who would only give her first name and declined to give her surname to protect the identity of her family, said she was waiting for her 10-year-old daughter.
