Visit the liberated city, meet the war-weary people: it’s the third stop in two days at the front. The President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy it crosses the areas that have suffered the most from the violence and they continue to resist. He inquires about the reconstruction plans. His troops are back in control Kherson: They drove out the Russians, the enemy army that had taken the city shortly after the Moscow-led invasion more than a year ago. But is that enough?
The buildings have been destroyed, the buses have been converted into ambulances: the entire area has only been partially cleared and the fighting could intensify in the coming weeks due to the good weather.
Zelensky was too Kharkov, the country’s second largest city in the north-east, which was taken from the Russians in the same month-long counteroffensive, where he also noted the need to start over and restore the destroyed infrastructure almost everywhere, as in all other areas in Kherson. The power plant is also one of the objectives and strategic points.