KYIV, Ukraine - There was the feel of a "victory" celebration in Kyiv. A small but boisterous crowd, singing songs, waving flags and chanting slogans. All follows the entry of Ukrainian troops into the key southern city of Kherson after over eight months of Russian occupation.

Thrilled residents in Kherson itself wasted no time to come out, wave flags and hug their saviors … Ukrainian soldiers.

In a TV address, Ukrainian President Zelenskyy called the moment "historic."

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Earlier, Russian troops had been spotted skulking over a makeshift pontoon bridge to reach the still-Russian-occupied opposite riverbank.

"No loss of military personnel has been allowed to happen," a Russian military spokesmen noted.

Still, it’s believed that some soldiers might have been left behind and are changing into "civvies" to try to blend into the crowd.

Ukraine will make short work of them, we were told on a Zoom call with the mayor of the neighboring city of Mykolaiv.

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"We are ready to move forward and clean our land from all occupiers, "Oleksander Senkevych said.

The events in Kherson are not good news for Russian President Putin and his invasion of Ukraine. He has been decidedly low-profile during the past week.

As we witnessed, though, it was fantastic news for a country looking for some kind of a break after being battered by months of fighting.

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And feeling especially hard hit as winter approaches as Russian strikes pound the electric power grid here.

We asked one young person at the impromptu rally in Kyiv how she felt. "Amazing," she replied. "Kherson?" I asked. "Ukraine!" she responded.

I asked another gentleman why he was so happy, to which he answered, "Because Kherson is free!"

And then there was a lady who usually lives in Kherson and has been staying in Kyiv for five months to get away from the Russians. She told me she didn’t believe this turn of events would happen.

"Feel the weather," she said. In fact, it was seasonably warm that night. "Just like my home in Kherson," she explained.

The thing is, many fear that this is probably just a brief respite from the cold winds of war, which continue to whip through Ukraine.

Two World War II-era planes collided in midair Saturday at an air show in Dallas as videos posted online showed the planes bursting into flames after slamming into ground.

The incident took place at the Wings Over Dallas World War II Airshow early Saturday afternoon in honor of Veterans Day.

“A Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress and a Bell P-63 Kingcobra collided and crashed at the Wings Over Dallas Airshow at Dallas Executive Airport in Texas around 1:20 p.m. local time Saturday,” an FAA statement said. “At this time, it is unknown how many people were on both aircraft.”

Leah Block, a spokesperson for Commemorative Air Force, said in a statement, “Currently we do not have information on the status of the flight crews as emergency responders are working the accident”

Block told ABC News that she believes there were five crew members on board the B-17 when it crashed and one on board the P-63 when it crashed.

BREAKING: 2 planes, including a B-17 Flying Fortress, collide at Dallas airshow pic.twitter.com/hdieiJuqvX

— BNO News Live (@BNODesk) November 12, 2022

⚠️ GRAPHIC VIDEO: A mid-air collision involving two planes near the Dallas Executive Airport, today. The accident took place during the Wings Over Dallas WWII Airshow at 1:25 p.m., according to Dallas Fire-Rescue. A @FOX4 viewer took this video. @FOX4 is working for more details. pic.twitter.com/jdA6Cpb9Ot

— David Sentendrey (@DavidSFOX4) November 12, 2022

BREAKING: Footage shows air collision of a B-17 bomber and smaller plane at Dallas airshow pic.twitter.com/eD1c2GHvu4

— Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) November 12, 2022

Paul Martin, a member of the Army Air Forces Historical Association, told The New York Times that is a rare to find a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress and a Bell P-63 Kingcobra that are in flying condition as there are very few of them still in existence.

“It’s heartbreaking for me to hear this, both on a human level and a historical level,” he said.

Morgan Curry, who saw the crash from a nearby parking lot, told a local NBC affiliate, “It’s like literally as you looked up you saw the big plane and then you saw one of the little planes split off from the three and then as soon as it split off it’s like they just collided into each other and the little plane split the big plane in half.”

“I honestly can’t believe that we witnessed that, like just standing here underneath it,” Curry said. “We were all just standing there like ‘what just happened?'”

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