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URSY.NEWS / The Guardian / 17 Oct 2026

‘Drones all night. By morning, you smell the smoke’: life in the last hotel on Ukraine’s frontline

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Amid blackouts, artillery fire and the onslaught of Russian drone attacks, the Richelievsky in Kherson provides a refuge for those with nowhere else to goThere is one important rule in the Richelievsky, Kherson’s last functioning hotel: close the curtains before dusk. Less than a kilometre away lies the Dnipro, the river that has formed the frontline since Ukrainian forces liberated Kherson in No…

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