‘They ran away like goats’: Ukrainian villagers celebrate liberation in Kherson region from Russian occupation

The Guardian ^ | 12 November 2022 | Luke Harding

[Cronos]

At 5am on Wednesday Serhii Melnikov heard a noise outside. The Russian soldiers who were living in the house opposite – were packing up to leave. They had occupied the village of Mylove in Ukraine’s southern Kherson region for eight months. Now they were off, as part of a humiliating pull-out from the right-bank of the Dnipro river.

“Vladimir Putin said Russia would be here for ever. In the end they left in five minutes and ran away like goats,Putin wanted to kill us. He’s ended up destroying his own country. Russia’s retreat from Kherson is an enormous failure.”

...The last moments of occupation were tinged with vindictiveness. On their way out Russian troops blew up the village’s school and nursery buildings, where they had lived, and brought down the radio tower. They detonated Mylove’s crossing over a tributary of the Dnipro, and other pieces of infrastructure.

Ukrainian special forces swept in on Thursday night. By Friday morning residents had put out blue-and-yellow flags and were celebrating their first hours of freedom.

..Melnikov said the village was originally home to 1,000 people. Between 300 and 400 stayed after the Russian takeover. He said: “We asked them why they had come. They replied: ‘To make your lives better.’ By the time they exited we had gone back in time 30 years. We now have no electricity, gas or water. Everyone is broke and there are no jobs. Instead of waging war, Putin could have fixed the roads and hospitals in his own country.”

“I was here from the beginning until the end. What amazed me is how many of Putin’s warriors seemed unfamiliar with toilets and asphalt roads. They arrived saying we were Nazis. By the time they left it was clear to everyone they were the Nazis. They destroyed everything.”

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Calls your BS.

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‘Ukrainian paratroopers singing “Our father is Bandera, our mother is Ukraine”.
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Just in case you still think the Ukrainian military and government isn’t filled with Nazis!’
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‘Fast Forward to Fascism’
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[dennisw]

You get a clown rating here. Has bad Vlad cut back on your payments schedule? As in money talks and bullshit walks.

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Your BS has been called so many times, it not even funny.

How’s your captured Uncle that was captured and beaten with a shoe trying to get him out of an AFV that was transporting him doing?

[dennisw]

If when communists like you were beaten with a shoe. Khrushchev style. This might install some common sense into your dim lightbulb skull.

Slava Ukrainie.

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Funeral home in Kherson was selling tombstones...

[dennisw]

That looks like your communist uncle Leon Trotsky

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Allegedly, the collective West of human rights and rule of law.

You SOBs are utterly pathetic especially in light of the Geneva Conventions link I gave along with the same BS Ukraine was pulling in 2014 to the time Russia was asked to intervene.

Utterly pathetic.
All of you must be Aleister Crowley fanbois as well huh!?!

[Cronos]

Let’s break down your, cranko’s , bull

1 you post a link to —> ‘Ukraine’s neo-Nazi Azov Battalion attempts rebranding’
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/06/03/ykgh-j03.html

—> This is the WORLDWIDE SOCIALIST WEBSITE —> really, that’s what you link to?

2. Next you link to TeleSur - which refers to “ Russian outlet RT.” for it’s headline

3. Next you link to a podcast which doesn’t give any sources for it’s statements

4. Next you link to “thecitizen” which only gives a speech by Putin to use in its headline

The rest is equal bull —> you seem to be a reader of WORLDWIDE SOCIALIST WEBSITE and post no facts. What are you doing on FR?

[Cronos]

No direct link that YAkov even said that.

[wardaddy]

Kherson city has been mostly emptied

Ukrainian forces are not streaming in with large numbers exposed to Russian artillery and drones etc wishing they would do just that

Ukrainian general said as much last night

The armies sit on opposite sides of the Dnieper awaiting Russian buildup

Whether Russia tries to reclaim western kherson is anyone guess

But he guardian is just more fairy tales

[dennisw]

The Russians (Patrushev) were just in Iran begging for more missiles and drones. The Ayatollahs said no
Putin is done and dead deposed by March. This will get very amusing as the Ukies kick Russian butt out of Ukraine.

[Cronos]

Russia won’t be able to claim anything. They are losing ground steadily