A brief ceasefire opens a perilous escape window from Kherson’s riverside kill zone

Name: A brief ceasefire opens a perilous escape window from Kherson’s riverside kill zone
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A white towel on her gate and a white rag in her hand were the only ways Ukrainian Nataliia Diadiuk could signal to Russian drone operators that she is a civilian. When a brief ceasefire began on Oct. 27, she had a moment of respite.
The 53-year-old is one of a handful of residents left in Kozatske, a riverside village located in the kill zone of Ukraine’s Kherson region less than 2 kilometers from Russian-controlled territory. Diadiuk’s life has been reduced to basic survival: rainwater to drink, firewood gathered around town for heat, a radio she tries to tune in to for news, and the remnants of humanitarian aid that had not reached her for two years. The brief ceasefire, which ended Sunday night just days after it began, finally allowed aid to reach her. An Associated Press team gained rare access to a so-called red zone to see firsthand what life in the kill zone looks like, a visit made possible only because of a brief, localized ceasefire tied to the humanitarian aid mission in the Russian-occupied city of Oleshky. Oleshky has drawn the world’s attention, but civilians are trapped in many more places on both sides of the front line. During the mission, Ukrainian regional officials, police, the Ukrainian Red Cross Society and volunteers, facilitated by civil-military cooperation specialists, used the rare window of time to reach people on their side of the river, some of them cut off for nearly two years. In all, 180 people were evacuated from riverside communities and the city of Kherson, including 23 children, the regional administration said. When the ceasefire ends, residents will again face drones, artillery, glide bombs and airdropped mines. Still, many refuse to leave. On the road to Diadiuk’s village, burned-out cars sit abandoned where they were hit, alongside wrecked ground robots that Ukrainians try sending down roads too dangerous for people. Diadiuk collects rainwater, strains it through gauze, treats it with chlorine and boils it. “The water here is more or less all right,” she says. The village’s ordeal began in the first days of Russia’s full-scale invasion, when it was occupied. After Ukrainian forces liberated it, Kozatske gradually came under siege by drones as the war turned increasingly technological. “Before, I’d just open the door and walk out,” said Oleksii Shavokin, 54, who lives a little farther down the street. “Now I open it a crack, stick my ear out and listen to the sky." His house burned down in early 2023 after a mortar attack, he said, but he patched it up and continues to live there. Many residents who stay do not know where they would go and fear they would be left to fend for themselves, said Oleh Tarabaka, head of the Nova Kakhovka city military administration. He was part of the team that tried to persuade Diadiuk and Shavokin to leave. But it is difficult, he said. Many have lived there their whole lives and fear that once they leave, they will have nothing to live on. “If there hadn’t been a period of quiet, we simply wouldn’t have gotten people out,” Tarabaka said. “We wouldn’t have been able to drive in here.” The temporary truce allowed the Red Cross to evacuate far more people than usual from Kherson city. The operation required every route and stage to be planned around the constant threat of drones and other weapons.

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A white towel on her gate and a white rag in her hand were the only ways Ukrainian Natalia Dyadiuk could signal to Russian drone operators that she is a civilian. When a brief ceasefire began on October 27, she had a moment of respite. The 53-year-old is one of a handful of residents left in Kozatsky, a riverside village located in the kill zone of Ukraine's Kherson region less than two kilometers from Russian-controlled territory. Dyadiuk's life has been reduced to basic survival, rainwater to drink, firewood gathered around town for heat, a radio she tries to tune into for news, and the remnants of humanitarian aid that had not reached her for two years. The brief ceasefire, which ended Sunday night just days after it began, finally allowed aid to reach her. An Associated Press team gained rare access to a so-called red zone to see firsthand what life in the kill zone looks like, a visit made possible only because of a brief, localized ceasefire tied to the humanitarian aid mission in the Russian-occupied city of Oleshky. Oleshky has drawn the world's attention, but civilians are trapped in many more places on both sides of the front line. During the mission, Ukrainian regional officials, police, the Ukrainian Red Cross Society and volunteers, facilitated by civil-military cooperation specialists, used the rare window of time to reach people on their side of the river, some of them cut off for nearly two years. In all, 180 people were evacuated from riverside communities and the city of Kherson, including 23 children, the regional administration said. When the ceasefire ends, residents will again face drones, artillery, glide bombs and airdropped mines. Still, many refuse to leave. On the road to Dyadiuk's village, burned-out cars sit abandoned where they were hit, alongside wrecked ground robots that Ukrainians try sending down roads too dangerous for people. Dyadiuk collects rainwater, strains it through gauze, treats it with chlorine and boils it. The water here is more or less all right, she says. The village's ordeal began in the first days of Russia's full-scale invasion, when it was occupied. After Ukrainian forces liberated it, Kozatsky gradually came under siege by drones as the war turned increasingly technological. Before, I just open the door and walk out, said Alexei Shavikin, 54, who lives a little farther down the street. Now I open it a crack, stick my ear out and listen to the sky. His house burned down in early 2023 after a mortar attack, he said, but he patched it up and continues to live there. Many residents who stay do not know where they would go and fear they would be left to fend for themselves, said Ola Terabaka, head of the Nova Kavkazka City Military Administration. He was part of the team that tried to persuade Dyadiuk and Shavikin to leave. But it is difficult, he said. Many have lived there their whole lives and fear Fear that once they leave, they will have nothing to live on. If there hadn't been a period of quiet, we simply wouldn't have gotten people out, Tarabaka said. We wouldn't have been able to drive in here. The temporary truce allowed the Red Cross to evacuate far more people than usual from Kursan City. The operation required every route and stage to be planned around the constant threat of drones and other weapons.