Every scrap of land is contested in battle for Dnipro delta at Kherson, with shelling and airstrikes punctuating deadly boat raids

From her fifth-floor balcony in Kherson, Alina Spyrydonova can see the bank of the Dnipro River occupied by Russian forces.

She lives in one of the southern Ukrainian city’s more dangerous locations, her windows broken earlier this year by Russian shelling.

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