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Two days after Russian forces pulled out of Kherson, Ukrainian authorities warned some enemy soldiers could still be holed up in the now liberated southern city, even as citizens continued to celebrate the end of the months-long occupation in the streets.
But amid the joyous celebrations, one official said conditions in the city are “a humanitarian catastrophe,” with citizens left without necessities like water, medicine, and food.
The Ukrainian military carried out “stabilization measures” near the city on Saturday, assessing the damage across the Black Sea port as residents tore down pro-Kremlin billboards and other symbols placed there since the city fell on March 2.
Ukrainian officials were wary, however, still concerned that some Russian soldiers were hiding in Kherson, and they warned that the liberated city likely still hides atrocities.
“Every time we liberate a piece of our territory, when we enter a city liberated from the Russian army, we find torture rooms and mass graves with civilians tortured and murdered by the Russian army in the course of the occupation of these territories,” Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said in Cambodia, where he was attending a meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
