Jeez, the Ukrainian government is mystified by Russia wanting to protect civilian lives instead of keeping them around as HUMAN SHIELDS as is Ukrainian practice.
The Russians know that Ukraine will not shell the columns of civilians that they mix in with their troops and supply trucks crossing the Denpier River.
BTW, wonder why none are allowed to flee the city to the Ukrainian lines. That was possible earlier. Wouldnt that hamper the Ukr offensive to have tens of thousands of civilians pouring into their area? The answer is obvious. These citizens of kherson are being kidnapped to Russia
Here is a good family video by a Ukrainian photographer living in Kherson when the Russians invaded. He was lucky to be able to escape north 3 months later. Educate yourself:
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“On March 1 Dmytro Bahnenko, a journalist in Kherson, southern Ukraine, watched Russian tanks roll down his street. As his world, like many Ukrainians’, turned upside down, he secretly started filming everything around him, sensing history in the making, and sharing the footage with BBC Eye.
Over the next three months Dmytro records his city’s resistance. Acts of defiance, including large demonstrations are followed by a violent crackdown. The city changes. Food and medicine become scarce. Russian military vehicles marked with the “Z” speed up and down Kherson streets. Shelling is heard round the clock. Many people flee. Friends and prominent local people start to disappear - others are put through mock executions and tortured for information.
As the Russians make their intentions clearer, Dmytro and his wife Lidia struggle to shelter their five-year-old daughter Ksusha from what is happening. The documentary is filled with colourful detail of how the young family find ways of coping as their city is steadily stripped of its Ukrainian identity.
Dmytro realises just how dangerous his secret project is when a pro-Ukrainian priest he has been filming is kidnapped and tortured by unidentified men from the Russian security services”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJSzVW6ZYOA&t=11s
Russians bomb civilian sights.