A Ukrainian City Marks A Year Of LossAnd Resistance
b'Kherson was the the first major Ukrainian city to fall to Russian troops. With deep historical ties to Russia, it was not expected to be a center of resistance.
But an army of citizen spies defied Moscow\'s expectations, and helped Ukrainian forces liberate the city last November.
A year after Russia launched its invasion, NPR\'s Joanna Kakissis has the story of Kherson\'s partisans: teachers and accountants and landscape designers, who became eyes and ears for the Ukrainian military.
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