Kherson

Ukrainians say they were pressured to register babies as Russian during occupation

By Rod Nickel and Leonardo Benassatto KHERSON, Ukraine, (Reuters) - The moment her grand-daughter was born, Olha Lukina, 65, rushed to a registry office. It was one of the last…

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How a band of Ukraine civilians helped seal Russia’s biggest defeat

By Jonathan Landay and Tom Balmforth KHERSON, Ukraine (Reuters) - Ukrainian intelligence wanted confirmation last autumn that officers of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) overseeing the occupation of Kherson were…

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Shells fly at Ukraine front despite Russia’s claimed Christmas ceasefire

KYIV/KRAMATORSK, Ukraine, Jan 6 (Reuters) - Russian and Ukrainian forces exchanged artillery fire at the front line in Ukraine on Friday, even after Moscow said it had ordered its troops to stop…

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Five killed, 20 wounded by Russian strike on Kherson – presidential office

KYIV (Reuters) - At least five people were killed and another 20 wounded by a Russian strike on the centre of Ukraine's southern city of Kherson, presidential aide Kyrylo Tymoshenko…

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Power restored in Ukrainian city of Kherson, senior presidential aide says

KYIV, Nov 26 (Reuters) - Electricity has been restored in the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson after its liberation earlier this month from Russian occupation, a senior presidential aide said on Saturday.…

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Photo Story – Returning to Kherson after Russian troops withdrawal

Taisia and Dmytro try to bring back their cow, who they released in mid-March before evacuations from their home, in Posad-Pokrovske village began, in Kherson region, Ukraine, 20 November 2022.…

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Ukraine’s Kherson races to restore power, water after Russian retreat

KHERSON, Ukraine, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Utility companies in Kherson were working to restore critical infrastructure damaged and mined by fleeing Russian forces, with most homes in the southern Ukrainian city still…

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EXPLAINER: Why Ukraine’s southern Kherson region is a strategic prize

KYIV (Reuters) - Ukrainian forces are piling pressure on Russian troops in the southern region of Kherson that Moscow occupied in February at the start of its invasion of Ukraine.…

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Ukraine’s Kherson races to restore power, water after Russian retreat

KHERSON, Ukraine, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Utility companies in Kherson were working to restore critical infrastructure mined by fleeing Russian forces, with most homes in the southern Ukrainian city still…

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Donetsk battles are ‘hell’, Ukraine’s Zelenskiy says as Kherson mops up

Nov 13 (Reuters) - Russian forces destroyed key infrastructure in Ukraine's southern city of Kherson before fleeing, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said, as his counterparts in Russia and Iran vowed to…

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Erdogan says Russian withdrawal from Kherson is a positive step

ANKARA, Nov 10 (Reuters) - Russia's decision to withdraw troops from near the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson is a positive step, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday. Erdogan…

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Ukrainian forces close in on Russian-controlled Kherson

FRONTLINE WEST OF KHERSON, Ukraine, (Reuters) - Oleh, the commander of a Ukrainian mechanized infantry unit dug into trenches west of Kherson, is confident his Russian foes will be forced…

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Russia digging in for ‘heaviest of battles’ in Kherson

NEAR KHERSON FRONTLINE, Ukraine, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Russian forces are digging in for the "heaviest of battles" in the strategic southern region of Kherson, a senior Ukrainian official said,…

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Russian strikes cause blackouts in much of Ukraine, more flee Kherson

KYIV, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Russian missiles pounded Ukrainian energy and other facilities on Saturday, causing blackouts in various regions, Kyiv said, while Russian occupation authorities in the southern city of Kherson…

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Russian occupation authorities tell civilians to leave Kherson ‘immediately’

Oct 22 (Reuters) - Russian occupation authorities in the Ukrainian city of Kherson told civilians on Saturday they should leave immediately because of what they called the tense military situation as Ukraine's…

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Factbox: The four regions that Russia is poised to annex from Ukraine

LONDON, Sept 30 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin will proclaim the annexation of four Ukrainian regions at a Kremlin ceremony on Friday, a major escalation in the seven-month war.…

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UPDATED: Russia starts annexation vote in occupied areas of Ukraine, West condemns ‘sham’

KYIV, Sept 23 (Reuters) - Russia began referendums on Friday aimed at annexing four occupied regions of Ukraine, raising the stakes of the seven-month-old war in what Kyiv called an…

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Britain says Ukraine’s counterattack in Kherson gains momentum, Russia captures power station

July 28 (Reuters) - Ukraine's counteroffensive is gathering momentum in the Russian-controlled southern Ukrainian city of Kherson, Britain's defence ministry said on Thursday. "Ukrainian forces have highly likely established a bridqehead south…

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Duma deputy head visits Ukraine’s Russian-occupied Kherson – RIA

May 14 (Reuters) - Senior Russian lawmaker Anna Kuznetsova visited the Russian-occupied region of Kherson in Ukraine to discuss social and healthcare needs of the local population, the state RIA news agency…

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UPDATED: Russia says strikes at U.S. weapons near Odesa, destroys runway

May 1 (Reuters) - Russia's defence ministry said on Sunday it had struck at weapons supplied to Ukraine by the United States and European countries and destroyed a runway at a military airfield…

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UPDATED: Over 2,400 civilians killed in Mariupol, 90 children have been killed in Ukraine war

BRUSSELS, March 14 (Reuters) - More than 2,400 civilians have been killed in the southern Ukrainian city of Mariupol since Russia invaded the country last month, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell…

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