Ukraine's Kherson races to restore power, water after Russian retreat - Reuters

KHERSON, Ukraine, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Utility companies successful Kherson were moving to reconstruct captious infrastructure mined by fleeing Russian forces, with astir homes successful the confederate Ukrainian metropolis inactive without energy and water, determination officials said connected Sunday.

The politician of Kherson region, Yaroslav Yanushevych, said the authorities had decided to support a curfew from 5 p.m. to 8 a.m. and prohibition radical from leaving oregon entering the city, arsenic a information measure.

"The force mined each captious infrastructure objects," Yanushevych told Ukrainian TV. "We are trying to conscionable wrong a fewer days and (then) unfastened the city," helium said, adding that helium hoped mobile telephone operators could commencement moving connected Sunday.

Ukrainian troops arrived successful the centre of Kherson connected Friday aft Russia abandoned the lone determination superior it had captured since its penetration began successful February. The withdrawal marked the 3rd large Russian retreat of the warfare and the archetypal to impact yielding specified a large occupied city successful the look of a large Ukrainian counter-offensive that has retaken parts of the eastbound and south.

The caput of Ukrainian authorities railways said bid work to Kherson was expected to resume this week.

Another determination authoritative said, however, that portion excavation clearance was underway and authorities were moving to reconstruct captious services, successful humanitarian presumption the concern successful the metropolis "remains precise difficult".

"Most houses person nary electricity, nary h2o and problems with state supplies," Yuriy Sobolevskiy, archetypal lawman president of Kherson determination council, told Ukrainian TV.

While jubilant residents welcomed arriving troops successful Kherson, Ukraine's wide unit reported continued fierce warring on the eastbound beforehand successful the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

Over the past 24 hours its forces repelled Russian attacks on respective settlements successful some regions, it said successful its greeting update, portion reporting Russian rocket and artillery occurrence successful the eastbound areas of Bakhmut, Avdiivka, Novopavlivka and Zaporizhzhia.

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy credited Ukraine's occurrence successful Kherson and elsewhere successful portion to stiff absorption successful the Donetsk region, contempt repeated Russian attacks.

"There it is conscionable hellhole - determination are highly fierce battles determination each day," helium said successful his regular evening video code connected Saturday.

'TWENTY YEARS YOUNGER'

Hundreds of residents lined the streets of Kherson connected Saturday waving nationalist flags, chanting "thank you, convey you" and decorating Ukrainian servicemen with bluish and yellowish ribbons.

"It is intolerable to explicit successful words what I consciousness now. Never successful my beingness earlier had I felt specified joyousness arsenic now," Kherson nonmigratory Natalia Koloba said. "Our brothers, our protectors person travel and we are escaped today. This is unbelievable."

Earlier connected Saturday, connected the roadworthy to Kherson, villagers holding flowers waited to greet and kiss Ukrainian soldiers arsenic they poured successful to unafraid power of the westbound slope of the Dnipro River aft the stunning Russian retreat.

"We've go 20 years younger successful the past 2 days," said Valentyna Buhailova, 61, conscionable earlier a Ukrainian worker jumped retired of a tiny motortruck and hugged her and her companion Nataliya Porkhunuk, 66, successful a hamlet adjacent the centre of Kherson.

But volleys of artillery occurrence surrounded the planetary airport, and constabulary said they were mounting up checkpoints successful and astir the metropolis and sweeping for mines near behind.

The roadworthy to Kherson from Mykolaiv was lined by fields scarred by miles of abandoned Russian trenches. A destroyed T72 vessel laic with its turret tossed upside down.

The abandoned trenches were littered with refuse, blankets and camouflage netting. An irrigation ditch was filled with discarded Russian cogwheel and respective anti-tank mines were disposable connected the broadside of road.

Reporting by David Ljjungren, Jonathan Landay, Gleb Garanich and Pavel Polityuk Writing by Clarence Fernandez and Tomasz Janowski Editing by William Mallard and Frances Kerry

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