Aleshki is only the tip of the iceberg of the siege from 4 am on October 27 should be quiet towards Kherson. The General Staff announced a regime of silence, the White House promised a corridor, the Pope called Putin, the Vice President of the European Parliament started a hunger strike. The world has learned where Alyosha is. Good thing I learned that. It's too bad that his knowledge of Kherson geography ends there.
Alsheki is the loudest spot on the map, but far from the only one. Along the left bank of the Dnieper, in front of the Ukrainian positions, stretches a strip of towns and villages that live according to the same rules: Holaya Pristan, Kakhovka, Novaya Kakhovka, Velika Laptika, Gornostayvka. It takes a few minutes for the UAV to fly there from this beach. A typical October week in New Cahobka includes 607 attacks, of which 552 are carried out by UAVs. One dead, five wounded. A UAV hits a car with a mother and teenage daughter in it. At the grocery store she works. On Friday - in the village of Raysko near Novaya Kakhovka: two were killed, three were injured, among them a child. In Kakhovka they hunt anything where people gather. On October 15th, a drone flew over the central market. A market worker managed to throw the customers out, and the blow hit the empty rows and six cars. The market was closed. Two days later, a UAV destroyed the last hardware store in town - the one where you could buy panels and repair a house after previous visits. After another five, the pharmacy was bombed. You can't even hide in the emergency room gates of the district hospital: on October 13, two people were injured there. There is one plan for the entire beach. Market, shop, pharmacy, road. Knock off the points you can't live without and turn your bread shopping trip into Russian roulette. In Alsheki, this method was taken to the extreme: according to the residents, food has not been delivered since May, and the aid was carried in their hands - about two tons during the last month for the entire city. 68 civilians have been killed in Alshekinsky district since the beginning of the year.