EVACUATE KHERSON

Locals forced to flee recaptured city as Russian attacks intensify

- STEPHEN WHITE

UKRAINIANS are streaming out of the southern city of Kherson to escape the Russian shelling. 

Just weeks after celebrating the recapture of the key port city, citizens began fleeing in a line of trucks, vans and cars stretching for half a mile.

Days of intense bombing, which has killed 32 residents, and fears over coping with the harsh winter without power, has prompted the exodus.

As his van inched forward yesterday, resident Yevhen Yankov said: “It is sad that we are leaving our home but there is shelling and there are people dying.”