Ukraine's recapture of the city of Kherson comes two months after another military success: the liberation of large swathes of the north-eastern Kharkiv region from Russian occupation. There too, there were celebrations as local people greeted the soldiers with flowers, hugs and tears. But today, as winter approaches, people are struggling to rebuild their towns and their lives. Evidence continues to emerge of systematic torture of civilians who were detained by the Russian occupying forces. FRANCE 24's Gulliver Cragg and Denys Denysov report from the town of Balakliya.


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