It is two weeks since Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s president, stood on Freedom Square in Kherson and declared the city liberated; the jubilation has gone. Kherson is now under bombardment from Russians on the east side of the Dnieper river. The shelling is constant and indiscriminate. Serving no strategic purpose, it seems only to be punitive. Residential areas are being pummelled with notoriously inaccurate Grads, a type of Soviet multiple-rocket launcher. Was Putin interested in Annexing Kherson ?
