In the villages of the Mykolaiv Oblast, which move from the front line to the second line of defense, most often not a single surviving house remains.

In one of these settlements, the Russians destroyed a school, a post office, a medical dispensary, a renovated club, shops and human settlements.

How is life when the battles for the Kherson region are nearby, TSN reports.

It is the last village on the border with the Kherson region and the first village to see Russian tanks during a full-scale invasion.

Now it is almost completely demolished.

900 people lived here - now there won't be even fifty.

There is nowhere to work and nowhere to actually live.

"For quite a long time, this village was at ground zero and massive bombardments continued. The Russians fired at everything, in particular, they used the S-300 anti-aircraft missile system," says the head of the territorial community.

It was the Russian S-300 anti-aircraft missile that destroyed the house, the ruins of which Oleg Pylypenko, the head of the local community, is walking.

"Here was a four-room apartment that we were preparing for a family doctor - it was completely renovated. The Russians believed that this was a super-important object and spent a very expensive missile to destroy it all," Pylypenko notes.

Rockets and projectiles were not spared in the village - for example, they destroyed a strategic village club.

They went here to discos, to concerts, to plays.

In this club, they managed to celebrate the New Year and were already preparing for March 8, but this day was already under occupation, so of course they did not celebrate.

Behind the scenes, you can still see the Ukrainian flag that survived the occupation and still hangs here.

Svetlana has been living here for the past 15 years.

She moved to the village to work at the post office, but what kind of post office is there now?

The building of the former dispensary cannot be repaired either - there are almost no medical facilities left in this area.

"Almost all institutions in the community are in this state. To date, only 2 dispensaries are working normally," says the head of the community.

Fifty children studied at the local school, their basketball team even won a junior tournament.

"The Russians hit several times with artillery shells and now the building is practically beyond repair," says Pylypenko.

Journalists meet the "Ukraine" piano in various broken schools and clubs.

Schools are broken, clubs are broken, but the piano has survived.

People live exclusively in basements.

In Soviet times, it was a military town that was not even marked on maps.

Since then, many bomb shelters have remained here, and now they have agreed.

Tatyana and her son set up tents - the illusion of a separate home in a dark room.

In fact, the woman is more worried not about her destroyed house or even about her life.

Her eldest son is being held captive by the occupiers - there has been no news since the beginning of spring.

Relatives remained only in Russia, but it is not enough to go to them, but there is nothing to talk about.

Two families live in a bomb shelter - they prepared for winter, put up a small house, made it as comfortable as possible.

Even a gas stove was taken from the house and pies are baked every day.

In such villages - where it was very loud and became much quieter - there is hope that the Kherson region will be liberated after all.

The question is, what will we see in our liberated villages?

We will remind that in the Kyiv region the victims of the war received new houses.

Read also:

• The Armed Forces of the Kherson region destroyed several bases of the occupiers, warehouses with ammunition and Russian equipment

• Why does the Russian Federation so stubbornly hold on to the right bank of the Dnieper in the south: an expert's explanation

• "De-occupation will go faster": the expert told how to act in Ukraine against the background of the "referendums" of the occupiers

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