The Latest Breaking News from Kherson

Kremlin appears to scale back its ambitions in Ukraine

Russia said on Thursday that it was still set on securing at least the bulk of the parts of east and south Ukraine that it has claimed as its own, but appeared to give up on seizing other areas in the west and northeast that Ukraine has recaptured.

Reuters · Dec 8, 2022

Kremlin: Russia plans to 'liberate' parts of Ukraine that Moscow annexed

(This story has been refiled to fix typo in 'plans' in the headline)

Reuters · Dec 8, 2022

‘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

The Guardian - UK · Dec 8, 2022

Kit and morale may prove decisive as Ukraine war enters winter phase

With temperatures expected to plummet to -20C or lower, Russian troops could be most vulnerable

The Guardian - UK · Dec 5, 2022

In occupied Kherson, ‘the Russians were destroying all books in Ukrainian’

During the Russian occupation of Kherson, only one third of schools remained open in the southern Ukrainian city. Many teachers refused to work as all teaching had to be done in Russian. FRANCE 24’s reporters spoke to Tatyana, one of many teachers yearning to return to school, despite daily Russian…

France 24 · Dec 5, 2022

Ukrainians say they hid orphaned children from Russian deportation

The staff at the children's regional hospital in Kherson city, Ukraine, say they began fabricating orphans' medical records to make it appear like they were too ill to move.

WEKU · Dec 5, 2022

Ukrainians hid orphaned children from Russian deportation

Throughout the war in Ukraine, Russian authorities have been accused of deporting Ukrainian children to Russia or Russian-held territories to raise them as their own

The Independent UK · Dec 5, 2022

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 · Dec 4, 2022

Vladimir Putin better informed now about Ukraine war, says US

Russian president not as insulated from bad news as earlier in campaign, claims intelligence chief

The Guardian - UK · Dec 4, 2022

Weeks after Vladimir Putin's forces retreated from Kherson, Ukrainians are again fleeing their homes in terror

Residents hid in their basements for months to survive the occupation of Ukraine's Kherson region, but Russia's humiliating defeat has brought new dangers: vicious revenge, relentless shelling and the deaths of dozens of civilians.

ABC News · Dec 3, 2022