Still, the 84-year-old woman was overwhelmed. She held her daughter in her arms, telling her she could not sleep the night before, lying wide-awake, hearing a thunderstorm and shelling in the distance, and worrying about her daughter’s arrival.
Desiatnykova kissed her mother on the forehead.
“But now I’m here,” she said. “Now we’re here.” END/

One of the posters Yellow Ribbon hung in the city made a reference to HIMARS, a weapon system that the United States provided to Ukraine. “If HIMARS can’t reach you,” the poster said, “a partisan will.”
END/ #Kherson

Her SBU acquaintances visited her earlier this week and dug up what had been buried in the yard. “They told me it was everything to make explosives,” she said.

“I was in there, too,” one man said.
“Who wasn’t?” Ihor responded.

Ukrainian officials stand guard outside a detention center where Ihor said he was held during the Russian occupation of Kherson city. (Ed Ram for The Washington Post)


Ihor meets Smoke in Kherson’s central square on Tuesday. (Ed Ram for The Washington Post)