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Ukraine evacuates civilians from Kherson; repeated shelling of Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant

Ukrainians are most likely to live with blackouts at least until the end of March, the head of a major energy provider said on Monday, as the government started free evacuations for people in Kherson to other regions.

Move comes amid fears war damage to infrastructure too severe for civilians in newly liberated areas to survive

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Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) - Ukraine said Monday that it had discovered four Russian torture sites in its southern city of Kherson, which Moscow's forces quit this month leaving behind a trail of misery and destruction.

Residents and and workers say occupying forces used site to burn bodies of fallen Russian soldiers

The evacuations come as Russian forces target key infrastructure leaving swathes of Ukraine without heating or electricity

Ukrainian authorities have started evacuating civilians from the recently-liberated areas of the Kherson region and the neighboring province of Mykolaiv, fearing that damage to the infrastructure is too severe for people to endure the upcoming winter, officials said Monday. Residents of the two southern regions, regularly shelled in the past…

Russia's leading war hawks rallied behind the humiliating decision for Moscow's forces to retreat from the Ukrainian city of Kherson this month, but the commander who argued in favour of the move is now under growing pressure to prove it was worth it.