The Latest Breaking News from Kherson

To the Ukrainian soldiers entrenched north of the Russian-held city of Kherson, a recent drop-off in Russian shellfire and armour movements signals that their foes dug into a nearby tree line are suffering serious manpower, supply and hardware woes.

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Speaking to FRANCE 24, Vera Jourova, a Vice-President of the European Commission, strongly condemned what Russia says are evacuations of civilians in the Kherson province of southern Ukraine. "I come from Czechoslovakia and this is the old playbook," she told Catherine Nicholson. "The Soviet military invasion of 1968 was presented…

President says destruction of Nova Kakhovka dam would mean large-scale disaster for towns and cities

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia of preparing to destroy the Kahkokva dam which would leave tens of thousands of civilians homeless and cut off water supplies to the south of the country

A Russian-installed official in the occupied part of Ukraine's Kherson region on Friday said that allegations by Kyiv that Russia has begun mining the Nova Kakhovka dam are "false", state-owned news agency RIA reported.

Ukrainian forces have continued to pile the pressure on Russian positions in occupied Kherson, targeting resupply routes across the Dnieper river as Kyiv inches closer to a full-scale assault to retake the strategic southern port city

It would be like ‘using weapons of mass destruction on a grand scale’, says Kyiv leader

Authorities in a region in southern Ukraine that has been annexed by Russia say that at least four civilians have been killed by Ukrainian shelling of a river crossing

The Kremlin on Friday sidestepped a question about whether or not President Vladimir Putin had given an order for Russian forces to withdraw from the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson.

Volodymyr Zelensky has warned that Russia is planning a “false-flag” attack on a hydroelectric power plant in southern Ukraine that would cause a “large-scale disaster”.