Residents In Ukraine's Southern City Of Kherson Carry On Despite Repeated Russian Shelling

Children wave a European Union flag at passing cars in the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson on October 29. Residents in the beleaguered regional capital are going on with their lives despite the risks of indiscriminate shelling from Moscow's forces, which can maim and kill at any time.

A damaged apartment building in Kherson

Russian forces have maintained their hold on the eastern bank of the Dnieper River, which passes through Kherson, and continue to pound positions in the city, often targeting critical infrastructure and killing civilians.
 

A man in a military uniform looks at part of a missile next to a residential building that was damaged during an overnight Russian attack on October 30.

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) was forced to evacuate 150 patients from a hospital in Kherson due to ongoing shelling. This was the second time MSF has had to evacuate patients from the same hospital in the past year as a result of attacks on the facility.

A man sells books at a market.

Moscow's forces continue to make life miserable for residents of Kherson and nearby villages, who are enduring power cuts and an economy severely impacted by the war.

A man surveys the damage to a house from an overnight attack on October 30.

On October 31, the head of the Kherson Regional Military Administration, Oleksandr Prokudin, reported on social media: "Over the past day, the enemy fired 98 times at the Kherson region, firing 447 shells from mortars, artillery, Grad, tanks, UAVs, and aircraft." 

People walk past a Ukrainian flag at a market on October 29.

Prokudin also reported that one person was killed and 16 people were injured as Kherson was fired upon 36 times overnight.
 

Natalya, whose elderly mother was killed during an overnight Russian attack, stands in the damaged apartment where they both lived on October 30.

People walk near a children's playground that is surrounded by a protective fence near a bomb shelter entrance. 

Another resident whose apartment was damaged during an overnight attack surveys his home on October 30.

A religious icon, discolored from smoke following a Russian missile attack, hangs on a wall in a residential home.