Russia claims to have liberated Ukraine’s south

• Ukrainian-controlled Kryvyi Rih is 40 miles north of the frontline.
• Lack of discipline has made their job more chaotic.
• 61,000 people have fled since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 

Russia Soldiers who were inebriated and carrying firearms and explosives stole private property and fought armed standoffs.

People who have left the Russian-controlled city of Kherson in southern Ukraine say their home has altered since early March.

A farmer spent four months under Russian authority. To reach Ukrainian-controlled Kryvyi Rih, he walked, boarded a bus, a car, then a rubber dinghy across a river.

It took his grandfather 12 hours on routes with landmines. His invaders are “savages.”

“There is no other name for them,” he says of the pro-Russian Donetsk fighters living in apartments without rent.

How can there be children if intoxicated adults with rifles and grenades roam the village? How can kids see this? he asks.

Russian mercenaries, conscripts, rebels, and the military attacked Ukraine. Lack of discipline has made their job more chaotic.

“They shot each other,” recounts Haliluk. The two argued. “They pointed firearms at each other.”

We were set free. who? Did we do this? Did we invite you?

About 400 individuals travel to Kryvyi Rih daily from Russian-occupied and war areas. The industrial city 40 miles north of the frontline is safer than where they were.

Since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, 61,000 people have fled.

A local official in Kryvyi Rih told that they started generating documents for people who had to evacuate the day Russia entered. Because they knew many people would go, they did this.

“I woke up and fell asleep to explosions and gunfire every day,” Halilyuk adds. Here is peace. Sometimes there are air raid sirens, but you’re not shaking in your bed.

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