Tres años después de su liberación, la ciudad ucraniana de Jersón enfrenta otro tipo de asedio – Chicago Tribune
By HANNA ARHIROVA and YEHOR KONOVALOV
JERSÓN, Ukraine (AP) — The town hall on the streets of Jersón is now free. Three years after the liberation ended with more months of Russian occupation, the city that had already experienced joy found itself in quiet tranquility, a place where daily life took place behind the walls of the lowland.
On November 11, 2022, people came out to the main square of the Ukrainian port city, sending bands of blue and yellow and abrazando to the soldiers who had been released during those months under Russian control. I think the people had passed.
By changing, war changes form. From across the Dnipro River, Russian tropas attack with steady intensity, and drones are now meridian through the skies over a city of ventanas rotas and patios vacíos.
But also, those who want to insist that life in a perhaps empty and safe city is the easiest to live in Russia.
A recent visit by Angelina Jolie had a welcome moral impulse for men, who designed a plasma life diary with photos showing the actress estadounidense in a country and in a street under-estrechos corredores de malla, necessary to protect civilians from drones.
Jersón, where before 280,000 people lived, became a lost tram of the front line, where the explosions resulted in a newspaper and the cartels said: “City of strength, freedom and resilience”.
A florist among ruins
The little quiosco of flowers of Olha Komanytska, 55, fell against the bombarded center of Jersón. Its red and white roses stand out from high cubes, a surrealist display of color in a dress that attracts a multitude of constants but which today and apenas to a few customers.
“Casi nadie compra flores”, dice. “Sólo estamos tratando de salir adelante.”
For 30 years, Komanytska and her partner grew flowers in the Jersón camp. El quiosco is everything that happens after your winters have been destroyed.
She puts a black sign on the head to protect the child. Murió of a heart condition, but she cries that the war took her there.
Your eyes turn dark to light, and recognize that you can’t waste a lot of time in your belly. “No more than 5 minutes,” he says, that’s for the drone flight.
But in your place, security is not better. Once a project was launched right on your head. Survived only because it was annoying, therefore, to point out the agrietado glass panel which is then covered to obscure the day.
Like many in Jersey, Komanytska learned of the city’s new surveillance rules. You can identify each weapon by its sound: artillery, cohetes, bombas… But drones, dice, son los peores. Now, go quickly and walk towards the house fixed to the walls, and sweep down the trees to escape from their “eyes”.
Imitate the sound: a low and chirring sound. “Siempre están buscando” a goal, dice. “Por la noche camino a casa, y están sobre mí. Sólo corres. Antes, podías podías esconderte bajo los árboles. Ahora… no sé dónde esconderme”.
The only time your Rostro sombrio is heard in a sound is when he collects the liberation of the city. “It’s an incredible day,” he says, repeating the words several times, as if wishing to make it real again.
Defend the city from the sky
In a fresco of Otoño’s day, yellow hours have accumulated in the street of municipal workers who are redder, the same plastic thing that before being used on construction sites, is now reused to protect civilians from drones.
In a hospital, the entrance is completely exposed in red protectors, along the arms, to the end of the perimeter, with only one passage already made for staff and patients. Officials say these places, where civilians gather in large numbers, are their top priorities because they have narrowed down their goals.
Despite the constant tension, an alert environment that petrifies, the city remains alive. The mail offices are operational, even if your entrances are blocked by the concrete pieces intended for the explosion absorber. On the bus routes, the transport continues to weigh on the trucks, there are small cement bunkers prepared, which register that the bomber could arrive at any time.
On the reds, an invisible escudo protected by Jersón. These are the city’s electronic warfare systems that use radio signals to detect, block or disable enemy drones.
Max, aged 28, who was given preference over his full number for security reasons, served in the 310th Batallón Independiente de Guerra Electrónica de la Marina, responsible for the electronic escudo in Jersey and the region. He worked in electronic warfare over the years and years to come, an environment that seemed more and more critical to him.
Your puesto on the front line is larger in a programmer’s workspace: computer screens show maps and data streams between voices of local units resulting in the room.
Max said the job is to detect objects and ensure what falls in his missions, including “drones for civilians, infrastructure, vehicles and including humanitarian convoys”.
This means that 250 FPV drones can fly Jersón solo during the day. However, Max’s unit intercepts over 90% of your work in the style of a video game user.
“When you have an attack on a soldier or a civilian, you duel, pesa in your alma. You want to do everything to ensure the security of your success,” he said, adding that you can also intercept live transmissions from Russian drones and observe your operations in real time.
“Create who simply wants to destroy our nation, not just in exercise, sino a todos, para que nous dejemos de existent”.
Lowland early childhood
To maintain a sense of normal life, certain activities, especially for children, must be carried out over time. The old apartment units are now furnished with colorful furniture and decorations.
Once a week, a children’s club meets here to play with you and your ladies. Small tables fill the room as children focus in their immediate movement, moving and moving freely under cards on breathing techniques for beginning life.
Team coach Oksana Khorosavyna said that in peacetime training was stricter, but in recent years the club was mainly a place where Jersey children could get together and make friends.
“These children are at home all the time,” he says. “Online student; everything in our lives is remote”.
Before long, you can take a trip to Mykolaiv, you can spend every minute free in the open air, something you can’t do in Jersón. Now there are also these trips that have taken place: the path of entry and exit has become dangerous.
In another country, Artem Tsilynko, aged 16, is a final year high school student who hopes to study dentistry and practice boxing with his friends.
“For me, this place is so unified,” he says. “Even if life in Jersey is limited, social life, sporting life, we also have the opportunity to enter.”
There has sometimes been a part of your life at war and that means the time for your own life has dimmed over time, but it regressed at night during the intense bombing. “When you feel it, your heart will accelerate,” he says. “Since then, it has been difficult to reconcile the sueño.”
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This story was translated into English by an AP editor with the help of a generative artificial intelligence tool.
