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  cash and free train rides
  
  I hope not to sound stupid, but how do I have to imagine the situation? Is there still train- traffic? Like every other day? I somehow can't imagine a situation where they are checking for tickets: "That's a ticket for seniors, please get out."
  I think I have no clue how living under these circumstances works...
context: This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 70%. (I'm a bot)
  
  
  In one of the most intense periods of shelling since Ukraine regained control of Kherson last month, Russian forces hit Kherson over the Christmas weekend, killing at least 10 people, and struck a maternity ward this week.
  On Wednesday, Kherson City Council member Dmytro Poddubniy said that Kherson is "One of the most dangerous cities right now," according to The Guardian.
  As part of a fast-tracked program, the Ukrainian government is also offering residents cash and free train rides headed west to leave the embattled region, the Ministry of Reintegration said in a Facebook post.
  
  
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  Russian news:  Train carrying Ukrainian Satan-Nazis destroyed in precision strikes. We're especially satisfied with the number of children de-nazified. They are a particularly dangerous threat. Because due to their size. They can Nazify much smaller spaces than the average adult. >
  
  If we hit the maternity wards we can stop nazis in their teacks! >
  
  Congratulations. You're now chief strategist for the great Russian Army. Here is your uniform (ignore the blood...I mean wine stains and pieces of broken window) And your case of bottom shelf vodka. Don't drink to close to windows. Very dangerous. Hail Hitle...Uh...erm...I mean our glorious, democratically elected leader Vladimir Putin. >
  
  pieces of broken widow*
  FTFY >
  
  meanwhile Russia lacks shells in other parts of the frontline.
  Yet they will shell Kherson that they have zero chance of recapturing militarily. This is why they will lose. They are not even strategic evil, just chaotic evil. >
  
  I completely lack any kind of military knowledge, so I’m likely super over-simplifying this. But how difficult is it to take out whatever equipment Russia is using for this shelling?
  I’d imagine it’s some kind of stationary equipment. Can’t it just be bombed from a jet? >
  
  Jets are not able to be used effectively by either side due to the absolute massive amount of anti air weapons deployed on the field.
  They’re using artillery which is basically a technologically advanced trebuchet/mangonel. It does move but not while firing. It is possible to hit it back with your own artillery but they have different ranges and obviously yours would become a target the closer to the front lines it is as well.
  In short, it’s complicated. >
  
  Modern systems can be moved to and from firing positions in less than 5min after firing but both sides are lacking in Anti-artillery radars making the threat of counter-battery fire much less likely than what it should be when two "modern western armies" clash. >
  
  No problem shelling all the people that supposedly voted for them then? >
  
  A month ago there were billboards in Kherson saying “this is Russia.” Now the Russians are bombing them. >
  
  russia: “WAAAH! IM A BIG GENOCIDAL BABY AND IF I CANT HAVE KHERSON, NO ONE CAN!!!” >
  
  Imagine being the foot soldier sent to die for that cause, too. Honorably stepping into harm's way and dying in order to defend the...  *checks notes* ego of a geriatric with dementia. >
  
  Russians: 
  All I hear is criticize, criticize, criticize! >
  
  They gonna flatten Kherson like bakhmut and Mariopol >
  
  So if Russia can't have Kherson then they'll just destroy it so no one can occupy it ever. What a terrible military strategy, this war makes no sense. >
  
  More terror bombings right out of the third reichs playbook >
  
  Is it so difficult military wise to find out where the shelling comes from and strike back at those positions? >
  
  Why do you assume they are not? >
  
  Probably because the shellings don't seem to end after months of potential counter strikes, using much more precise weapons than whatever crap the russians are using. It's a valid question, not an attack. >
  
  On social media it looks like Russia is losing a lot of equipment (well, they are) but they have thousands of artillery pieces when you count self-propelled, field, and mortars. That's why it's dangerous to say things like "Russia has nothing left". Unfortunately, they very much do have a lot of equipment left.
  I've seen soldiers compare Russian Ground Forces to cockroaches. They keep killing and destroying them, but they just keep coming back and attacking. >
  
  My wife’s grandmother is there. She refused to leave last month when the Ukrainians were reaching the city again. I’m afraid she’ll die there. >
  
  I remember being chastised for thinking this would happen because “Kherson and Ukraine now have the high ground”. 
  I don’t think Russia cares about putting people and equipment in vulnerable positions so long as they commit atrocities. >
  
  Terrorist state. That’s all Russia is.