As she was driven by her son out of Dudchany, a small village in the north-east of the Kherson region a few days ago, Rosaliya Kovalchuk, 72, glimpsed something that will haunt her forever.
“Hanging from the branches of a tree were guts from a man’s belly,” Kovalchuk said. “A military car had been blown up. I think he was Russian from the boots and the uniform.”
Dudchany, one of the stepping stones down the Dnieper River to Kherson city, the regional capital 125km to the south-west, is at the