The killing of ordinary people....

We were in Kherson. On the day we were there, 3 civilians were killed. The day we left 26 were murdered by shelling, women and children. Some in a supermarket. 
We met some women and children in Kherson, who are in this present danger. Trying to survive. And it's getting worse. A curfew has been called, for 56 hours. There is an existential danger for these ordinary people. We read in the Guardian today a report from Kherson:

"Yesterday I had to go out around the city. I drive along the city. I was near one of the places that was shelled. It felt like walking on a razor blade. Now I don’t want to leave the house. From tomorrow night we’ll be under a strict curfew announced by the authorities. First thing is safety but I assume this has something to do with the counteroffensive."

“Right now it’s quiet in my district. We are going out to buy drinking water and bread. There’s a couple of small markets nearby but we are going do it fast, like in half an hour, because of the shelling.”

Kateryna Symonova, who lives in the city centre, owned a bar before the war and now works at the technical university. She said: “It was really loud. We heard a lot of bombing. Big and close and we could hear it all the time. It was bad enough that the whole apartment all was shaking. We went down to basement for a time after it started at 10pm. today."
We would say that this is the reality in Kherson. Fear of losing your life 

I got this message from a woman we met in Kherson, when we dropped of some aid....
"we are alive. we sit at home. We don't go outside unless we have to. and we don’t want to leave our house as long as there is a roof over our heads"

Our blog was going to be different this evening. About some of the funnier moments on out journey. This can wait.

We are back home in Lviv now. We will set off again soon. The people we have met, we hope you keep safe. You are "Always on my mind," as a great singer, Willie Nelson, said...celebrating his 90th birthday the other day. Have a listen.

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