24 hours in Kherson

As reported by Suspilne, the national news organisation:
Yesterday, July 31, around 8 a.m., the Russian military shelled the center of Kherson. Townspeople heard about seven explosions. A 60-year-old man was killed and four of his colleagues were injured. One person was killed in his car.  
Due to shelling, fires broke out in two administrative buildings, a garage and a private yard. Whilst workers tried to extinguish the fires, the Russian army continued to strike repeatedly, so the rescuers had to return several times. 
Four people died altogether and 17 were injured.

After lunch, the Russian military shelled the gymnasium in Bilozerka (a village in Kherson region), damaging a wall and breaking windows. Debris and the blast wave hit residential buildings; there were no injured or killed.

Kherson was shelled again by the Russian military at night. Hits were also recorded in the Dnipro district and coastal areas. Fires broke out in some areas.

Due to the constant shelling by the Russian army, 32 settlements of Kherson region, located near the Dnipro river, remain without electricity. Energy companies cannot get there to repair the transformer stations that were destroyed, following the Kakhovka dam explosion and flooding.

In Kherson this morning, a doctor was killed and a nurse was wounded when Russians shelled one of the hospitals.


This is everyday life in Kherson and it's why we try to help there as much as we can. Thank you to everyone who is supporting us.

Tomorrow, Bob is transporting a van load of drinking water that we purchased today. It will be taken to villages that still have no access to fresh water, following the Kakhovka dam flooding.

He also has another special assignment that I'm sure he'll write about in tomorrow's blog.

There have not been any missile attacks in the Odesa region for several days now. But we had 3 air raid alerts today; each time we had just set off on a walk and decided to return home. It feels dangerous when there are a number of alerts without consequences, because it can lull people into a false sense of security. As Bob commented yesterday, there is no sense to Putin's attacks and they can happen anywhere. anytime.

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