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Kherson Diary: No Power, no Water but the Joy Just Flows

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Kherson Diary: No Power, no Water but the Joy Just Flows

During the long, long months when Russian forces were in charge, the national flag was contraband. Only rarely and in the privacy of his own home did Yevhen Teliezhenko dare bring out his prized possession, the banned yellow-and-blue of Ukraine. Now the Russians are gone, forced out of his southern city of Kherson, and the 73-year-old is making up for all that lost time. He and his wife are driving around the city, flying their flag and — with the enthusiasm of teenagers — asking Ukrainian soldiers who liberated them to autograph it. "They were fighting for us. We knew we were not alone," he said.
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