Utility companies in Kherson were working to restore critical infrastructure mined by fleeing Russian forces, with most homes in the southern Ukrainian city still without electricity and water, regional officials said on Sunday.
The governor of Kherson region, Yaroslav Yanushevych, said the authorities had decided to maintain a curfew from 5 p.m. to 8 a.m. and ban people from leaving or entering the city, as a security measure.
While jubilant residents welcomed arriving troops in Kherson, Ukraine's general staff reported continued fierce fighting along the eastern front in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. "There it is just hell—there are extremely fierce battles there every day," he said in his regular evening video address on Saturday.Hundreds of residents lined the streets of Kherson on Saturday waving national flags, chanting "thank you, thank you" and decorating Ukrainian servicemen with blue and yellow ribbons.
"We've become 20 years younger in the last two days," said Valentyna Buhailova, 61, just before a Ukrainian soldier jumped out of a small truck and hugged her and her companion Nataliya Porkhunuk, 66, in a hamlet near the center of Kherson.
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