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Ukraine stages raids across Dnipro River as counteroffensive looms

Ukrainian forces based on the western side of the River Dnipro are frequently carrying out raids on the eastern bank near the city of Kherson to try to dislodge Russian troops, a regional official said on Tuesday.

Reuters

Russian forces ‘forcibly evacuating’ civilians in Kherson as Ukraine troops ‘cross Dnipro river’

The move comes amid the reported advances of Kyiv’s troops

Evening Standard

Russian forces ‘forcibly evacuating’ civilians in Kherson, says Ukraine

Apparent move in occupied areas comes as Ukrainian military sets up positions on eastern side of Dnipro River

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As Vladimir Putin prepares for ‘maximum escalation’, will the US go the distance?

War is about waiting. HIMARs wait to fire. Conscripts wait to advance. Generals wait for the order. This near year long war is wrapped in this uneasy waiting as offensives are readied. Russia’s mobilised battalions have reinforced its fronts. Ukrainian depots and patrols, starkly different from a year ago, are…

Evening Standard

Explosions rock Kyiv as Russia fires more than 120 missiles at Ukraine in latest barrage of strikes

Explosions also heard in Zhytomyr and Odesa as Putin’s forces launch their biggest wave of strikes in weeks targeting Ukraine’s national infrastructure

Evening Standard

Russia fires barrage of missiles on Ukraine cities, energy grid

Russia fired scores of missiles into Ukraine early on Thursday, targeting Kyiv and other cities including Lviv in the west and Odesa in the southwest, sending people rushing to shelters and knocking out power in one of Moscow's largest aerial assaults.

Reuters

‘It has been machine guns lately’: fighting intensifies in southern Kherson

Opposing forces now face each other across narrow part of Dnipro River as Kyiv tries to keep Russians on the retreat

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‘I thought of Russians as our brothers – how could they commit such an abomination?’

The city of Nikopol in southern Ukraine lies just across the Dnipro river from the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, exposed to daily Russian bombardment and unable to return fire. FRANCE 24's reporters spoke to residents burning with rage at the misery Russia has inflicted on their country.

France 24

Ukrainians in Kherson wait for loved ones to cross frontline river

Ukrainian families waited in bitter cold on Sunday for their loved ones to cross from the Russian-held bank of the Dnipro River to Kherson, a city that since Ukraine recaptured it from Russian forces last month has been under heavy shelling.

Reuters

Kherson officials ease river crossings from Russian-held territory

Officials in the southern Ukrainian region of Kherson announced on Saturday they would help citizens evacuate from parts of Russian-occupied territory on the east bank of the Dnipro River amid fears of intensified fighting.

Reuters

Kherson fell quickly, but Ukraine’s progress east of the Dnipro will be harder

Forcing out Russia with minimal civilian casualties was an achievement, helped by the city’s isolated position

The Guardian - UK

Ukraine troops enter centre of Kherson as Russians retreat in chaos

Volodymyr Zelenskiy hails ‘historic day’ as locals raise Ukrainian flags around Svoboda Square

The Guardian - UK

Strategic bridge near Ukraine's Kherson has collapsed - public broadcaster

The Antonivskiy bridge, the only nearby road crossing from the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson to the Russian-controlled eastern bank of the Dnipro River, has collapsed, Ukraine's public broadcaster quoted local residents as saying on Friday.

Reuters

Ukrainian troops approach outskirts of Kherson after taking key town

Video shows Ukraine’s forces about nine miles from city centre but Kyiv unable to confirm Russian retreat

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Russia wants to turn Kherson into 'city of death', Kyiv says

A senior adviser to Ukraine's president said on Thursday Russia wanted to turn Kherson into a "city of death" after Moscow ordered its troops to withdraw from the southern Ukrainian city.

Evening Standard

Putin’s forces ‘vulnerable’ to attack as they retreat from Kherson in Ukraine’s south, say UK defence chiefs

Putin has been forced to order the retreat due to problems resupplying his troops on the west bank of the Dnipro River, the MoD says

Reuters

Ukrainian troops reclaim dozens of towns from Russian control, close in on Kherson

Ukrainian troops have reclaimed dozens of landmine-littered settlements abandoned by Russian forces in southern Ukraine, officials said, the day after Moscow announced its withdrawal from the strategic capital city of Kherson province.

Reuters

Key developments in Ukraine's Kherson region since invasion

Ukrainian troops were greeted by joyous residents in the centre of Kherson on Friday after Russia abandoned the only regional capital it had captured since its invasion in February.

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Russia orders withdrawal of troops from Kherson and west bank of Dnipro River in Ukraine's south

Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu orders his troops to withdraw from the illegally annexed city of Kherson, but Ukrainian officials remain sceptical.

Reuters

Ukraine says Russia destroying civilian ships on river in southern standoff

Ukraine's army accused Russia on Sunday of the large-scale destruction of civilian vessels moored on the banks of the Dnipro River in the occupied southern region of Kherson that Kyiv's forces are trying to capture.

Reuters

Putin endorses evacuation of parts of Ukraine's Kherson region

Russian President Vladimir Putin publicly endorsed the evacuation of civilians from parts of Ukraine's southern Kherson region on Friday, the latest sign of Russia's retreat in one of the most bitterly contested areas in Ukraine.

Reuters

Russian-installed official: Russian units likely to quit western bank of Dnipro river

A Russian-installed official in Ukraine's southern Kherson region said on Thursday that Russia's armed forces were likely to quit the western bank of the Dnipro river, from where Moscow has been evacuating citizens in recent weeks.

Reuters

Empty streets, shuttered shops as Russian-held Kherson braces for battle

The streets and boulevards of the Russian-held port of Kherson in southern Ukraine are virtually empty. Many shops and businesses have been shuttered and, at a jetty on the banks of the Dnipro River, a handful of people board a ferry to leave.

France 24

Zelensky calls for 'long-term protection' of Ukraine grain corridor

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said Tuesday that the grain shipping corridor to get food out of his country, part of an agreement Russia has suspended, needs reliable, long-term protection. Lawyers in Britain earlier took the first step towards what they said was "groundbreaking" legal action against Russia's shadowy Wagner group…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Civilian Evacuation of Kherson ‘Completed’

The Moscow-installed head of the Crimea region said on Friday that the evacuation of civilians from occupied Kherson has been "completed". The head of Moscow-annexed Crimea has said evacuations from occupied Kherson organized by Russia's forces amid a Ukrainian counter-offensive were "completed", after he visited the region with the Kremlin's…

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