Kherson diary: ‘Now we know in person our heroes and our traitors’

Week three of two female journalists' first-hand account of the Russian occupation of the Ukrainian city

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Now in their third week under Russian occupation, Kherson residents have resisted attempts to declare the city a people's republic". But in a third dispatch for the Observer, two female journalists, whose identities we are protecting, warn that as supplies run low, a humanitarian disaster is unfolding.