The evacuees are trying to start over in areas beyond Russian control, but the war has followed them.
And every day they run a gauntlet of harassment and worse from Russian troops. They are leaving for many reasons: to avoid being detained or to escape the heavy-handed actions of Russian forces, or because of the chronic shortages of medicine and other basics in Kherson, which fell under Russian control soon after the invasion. Last week, a convoy of no fewer than 1,000 vehicles tried to leave Kherson.
Oleksandr Vilkul, head of the Kryvyi Rih military administration, said on Thursday that Russian artillery had fired on the column of vehicles and that two people had received shrapnel wounds.Others have related similarly harrowing escapes from Kherson. Katerina Torgunova lived with her husband and 3-year old daughter in the town of Oleshky.The day they left, she said,"We passed the first two checkpoints relatively calmly, and at the third checkpoint, we had huge problems.
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