Since Saturday, demonstrations are multiplying in this great southern city, taken by Moscow on March 2nd. Local proctions have also fallen.
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“Fascists! Fascists!” “Putin you are fucked!”, “Russian ship, will make you fuck!” Since Saturday, March 5th, the slogans resonate every day at 10 am in the city center of Kherson, the first Great Ukrainian city fallen into the hands of the Russians, three days earlier. An act of bravery, so shouting its opposition to occupation is perilous for the 290,000 inhabitants of this metropolis of the south of the country. During the first event, some 8,000 people, with Ukrainian flags, had come together on the main square to exhort the Russians to “go home”.
The testimonials collected by Le Monde all say how much the large-scale Moscow offensive and the bombing without distinction have drawn up the local population against those which it now designates for what they are, “occupants”. “The number of people who go down the street is impressive, is surprised, is astonished by Bilyi, journalist and political analyst Ukrainian installed in Kherson. Yet public transport does not work, but people are doing to come as they can.” / p>
Saturday, the crowd has advanced towards the Kherson central building under the look of the snipers, posted in the windows. On the square, Russian soldiers fired in the air to try to repel her. “But there were so many people that the occupants ended up waiting in silence,” continues the journalist.
“That the Russians come home”
OLEKSANDR MOUDRIY, 33, is all the events. Russian propaganda, which presents the invasion in Ukraine as an operation aimed at “freeing” the population, which would be hostage of a “Nazi” government, puts it out of it. “Let the Russians come home, we do not need to be released by our enemies, Entry this comedian and father. There is no Nazis, here. The Russians are occupants, and Putin is A killer. “In his eyes, they are on the contrary the Russians who behave like” fascists “and” Nazis “.
“Zelensky is our president, we are proud of him, and we do not want anyone else instead, launches Oleksandr, with reference to the Kremlin project to decapitate Ukraine to install a puppet government instead. Russia is not a country, it’s a huge prison. I want to travel, say what I want, to vote freely. I want my daughter to choose the life she wants. We need Help. We had a beautiful peaceful life before the arrival of the Russians. “
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