# kherson

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2022

Moscow accuses Ukraine of air base attack that it claims left three dead

Russia’s domestic security agency has said it has killed four Ukrainian ‘saboteurs’ that allegedly tried to enter the country.

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Dec 26th 2022, 11:43 AM

# Ukraine

Russian shells pound Kherson, leaving seven dead

Ukrainian forces retook control of Kherson last month.

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Dec 24th 2022, 2:42 PM

# Ukraine

Russia launches more than 60 missiles into Ukraine, at least two people killed

Blasts were reported in at least four cities.

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Dec 16th 2022, 1:20 PM

# kherson

Ukrainian governor says Russian shelling in Kherson kills two and has injured five others

The city of Kherson was in November recaptured by Ukrainian forces during a Kyiv counteroffensive.

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Dec 11th 2022, 11:26 AM

# Ukraine

Russian shelling cuts off power again in liberated city of Kherson

Ukraine has faced an onslaught of Russian artillery fire and drone attacks since early October.

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Dec 1st 2022, 6:11 PM

# artillery

Pockets of shelling across Ukraine as winter warfare looms

Analysts predict wintry weather could have an increasing impact on the direction of the nine-month-old conflict.

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Nov 27th 2022, 12:26 PM

# Ukraine

Russian shelling kills 15 in Kherson as Ukraine battles to restore power

A barrage of missiles hit residential and commercial buildings, setting some ablaze.

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Nov 25th 2022, 9:56 PM

# Ukraine War

Zelenskyy says Russia using cold as 'weapon of mass destruction'

Ukraine and the WHO have expressed fears that a lack of heat, power and water due to Russian shelling will make living conditions too difficult this winter.

Authorities have begun evacuating civilians from recently liberated sections of the Kherson and Mykolaiv regions

The World Health Organisation has said millions face a “life-threatening” winter in Ukraine this year

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Nov 22nd 2022, 10:30 PM

# Ukraine

World Health Organisation says millions of lives at risk in Ukraine this winter

It comes after Ukraine said it had discovered four Russian torture sites in the southern city of Kherson.

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Nov 21st 2022, 9:25 PM

Voices

Tom Clonan: Losing Kherson is a huge blow for Russia that will embolden the Ukrainian army

The security analyst looks at the recent gains for Ukraine and says it must now capitalise on this and win back more territory.

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Nov 15th 2022, 9:25 AM

# kherson

Zelenskyy calls liberation of Kherson the 'beginning of the end’ of the war

The liberation of Kherson is one of Ukraine’s biggest success so far of the nearly nine-month invasion.

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Nov 14th 2022, 9:43 PM

# kherson

Relief in Ukraine's Kherson after Russian occupation

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told Ukrainians still under occupation: ‘We don’t forget anyone.’

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Nov 13th 2022, 2:10 PM

# Ukraine

'Life is returning': Ukrainian police and broadcasters come back to Kherson

Residents awoke from jubilant celebrations that broke out after the Kremlin announced its troops had withdrawn to the other side of Dnieper River.

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Nov 12th 2022, 3:27 PM

# Retreat

Moscow says Kherson pullout has started as Ukraine claims gains

In Moscow, Kremlin supporters rushed to justify the decision.

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Nov 10th 2022, 9:22 PM

# kherson

Ukraine's occupied city of Kherson without electricity and water after strike

It is the first time that Kherson has seen such a power cut.

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Nov 6th 2022, 6:39 PM

# counter-offensive

Russia ‘withdraws officers' from Kherson ahead of expected Ukrainian advance

The Ukrainian military said its forces have continued their counter-offensives in the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions

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Oct 23rd 2022, 12:05 PM

# Ukraine

Pro-Russian authorities urge Kherson residents to 'immediately' leave city

Kherson is one of four regions Russia has claimed to have annexed.

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Oct 22nd 2022, 7:16 PM

Ukrainian forces pile pressure on Russian-held Kherson as full-scale attack grows closer

The counter-attack comes as thousands of Russian draftees have poured into the region

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Oct 21st 2022, 6:04 PM

# kherson

Pro-Kremlin officials say 50,000 will be evacuated from Kherson

Kherson was the first city to fall to Russian forces after the Kremlin launched its invasion on February 24.

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Oct 19th 2022, 10:03 AM

# Ukraine

At least three killed as Russian strikes hit residential buildings in Zaporizhzhia

It comes as Ukraine said it had retaken more than 400 square kilometres of the Kherson region since the beginning of the month.

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Oct 6th 2022, 3:56 PM

# Ukraine

Ukraine claws back more territory in strategic southern Kherson region

Ukrainian forces penetrated Moscow’s defences in the region, one of the four areas that Russia is trying to absorb.

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Oct 3rd 2022, 9:18 PM

# Ukraine

Ukraine launches counterattack with intense fighting in southern region of Kherson

The attack, launched yesterday, comes as President Zelenskyy meets with the UN’s atomic energy group.

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Aug 30th 2022, 5:42 PM

# russian invasion

At least two killed after 'massive' Russian shelling in Ukrainian city of Sloviansk

Moscow has launched a campaign of so-called Russification.

Sloviansk Mayor Vadim Lyakh has urged residents to evacuate and to take cover in shelters.

FSB official Sergei Yeliseyev said "Russia is here forever" upon taking over the government in Kherson.

Talks in Switzerland heard that the rebuilding of Ukraine is estimated to cost at least $750 billion.

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Jul 5th 2022, 7:10 PM

# kherson

Russia seizes key Ukrainian city of Kherson after week of war

Russian “occupiers” were in “all parts” of Kherson, Ukrainian regional official Gennady Lakhuta conceded late last night.

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Mar 3rd 2022, 7:17 AM