“Stepping outside your apartment is a mortal risk”: Russian forces target civilians as the Kremlin’s “human safari” in Kherson continues
Russian shelling killed 712 residents of Ukraine’s Kherson region in the years 2024-2025, wounding an additional 4,175. This past December also saw a devastating Russian strike that knocked the local thermal power plant offline, leaving more than 40,000 residents without heat. Kherson has been enduring Russian military aggression for nearly four years, but the attacks have grown steadily more intense — and deadly — since Russian forces were driven to the opposite bank of the Dnipro River in November 2022. Residents of the region told The Insider how they are coping with the freezing temperatures, moving into underground bomb shelters, and helping one another.
