The streets of herson were mostly abandoned during the day, since no one had jobs to go to any more. The russians started implementing some rules, mandating that people could only gather in small groups outside. Geus: For now, i think nobody understands what is really going on in herson and what the future holds.
Through ineptitude and bad timing, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa—known as Gota—has driven his country toward ruin. Its people
want him out. Russian forces have occupied
Kherson since early March. We hear a report from the ground about life under foreign occupation. And tasting awamori, a Japanese spirit that distillers may lift from the doldrums simply by
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