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Kherson residents ditch Russian SIM cards for Ukrainian ones

Hundreds of residents in the newly-liberated city of Kherson queued up in the rain to switch the Russian SIM cards in their mobile phones for local ones on Thursday, only days after the city was retaken by Ukrainian forces.

Reuters

'I thought I was going to die': Abuses widespread in Ukraine

As violence escalates in Ukraine, human rights abuses have become widespread

The Independent UK

Inside Russian 'torture dungeon' in liberated Kherson where Ukrainians were held

Ukrainian interior minister Denys Monastyrsky said the investigation into Russian crimes in Kherson had only just begun "so many more dungeons and burial places will be uncovered"

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More than 10 million Ukrainians without electricity, says Zelensky

More than 10 million Ukrainians were without electricity on Thursday, said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, as Russian missiles pounded energy facilities in yet another barrage targeting civilian infrastructure across the country. Read our blog to see how the day's events unfolded. All times are Paris time (GMT+1)

France 24

Ukraine rights chief releases video of 'torture chamber' in liberated Kherson

A top Ukrainian human rights investigator on Thursday released a video of what he said was a torture chamber used by Russian forces in the recently liberated Kherson region, including a small room in which he said up to 25 people were kept at a time.

Reuters

Ukraine news – live: Russia dodges question on US nuclear warning

Kremlin declines to give details of meeting with CIA chief

The Independent UK

War in Ukraine: Civilians in Balakliya share chilling accounts of Russian atrocities

Ukraine's recapture of the city of Kherson comes two months after another military success: the liberation of large swathes of the northeastern Kharkiv region from Russian occupation. There, too, there were celebrations, as local people greeted soldiers with flowers, hugs and tears. But now as winter approaches, people are struggling…

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'War not an excuse:' Ukraine rail boss keeps trains running

Among the bitter lessons that Ukrainians have had to learn in the nearly nine months since Russia invaded is that what’s here today can be destroyed tomorrow and that nothing in war can be taken for granted

The Independent UK

With winter approaching, Ukraine prepares to fight on frozen ground

The coming winter may provide Ukraine with more opportunities to retake land from Russia, Western military analysts say. It will also bring a change in battlefield tactics.

WEKU

‘The Russians mined everything’: why making Kherson safe could take years

As Ukrainians celebrate the region’s liberation, deminers begin their huge task

The Guardian - UK

Ukraine: Where next after fight to take Kherson?

The recovery of the city of Kherson is the third big victory for the Ukrainian armed forces in three months: first, the reconquest of all of Kharkiv Oblast in September, then the partial destruction of the Kerch Strait Bridge linking Crimea with Russia in October, and now the liberation of…

Bangkok Post

Ukrainians dance in Kherson's streets at the end of Russia's months-long occupation

Since Russian troops withdrew and Ukrainian forces moved in, residents are meeting up in the city's main square to celebrate, waving their flag, singing and dancing.

WEKU

Barrage of Russian missiles causes blackouts across Ukraine

Ukraine’s energy minister says the wave of attacks was the biggest bombardment of power facilities in war so far.

Al Jazeera

Russian Airstrikes Reported in Cities across Ukraine

Russian airstrikes targeting energy and other facilities rocked Ukraine from east to west Tuesday, causing broad power blackouts. A senior official warned that the situation was “critical” and urged Ukrainians to “hang in there” as neighborhoods went dark. The aerial assault, which resulted in at least one death in a…

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Russian TV pundit slams ‘fairy tale’ pushed by Kremlin as Ukrainians ‘mock’ war defeats

Political commentator Maxim Yusin suggested that Russian troops deserve to be ridiculed following their evacuation from Kherson last week

Reuters

Russian administrators leave second city of Ukraine's Kherson region

Civil servants working for the Russian-installed administration in Nova Kakhovka, the second-largest city in Ukraine's southern Kherson region, have left along with thousands of residents due to fighting, officials said on Tuesday.

Reuters

Russia's operation in Ukraine is now a defensive one - Western official

Russia is now engaged in a defensive operation in Ukraine following its withdrawal from the southern city of Kherson, a Western official said on Tuesday, after President Volodymyr Zelenskiy vowed to reclaim all its occupied territory.

Reuters

Ukraine shipping hub cheers as Kherson win foils Russian Black Sea hopes

In Mykolaiv's blast-cratered district of Korabel, close to Ukraine's southern front, Pavel Salohub, a teacher of history and boxing, has not heard a single explosion in four days - the first such respite from war since Russia invaded.

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Evening Standard

Russia’s temporary Kherson capital positioned away from Ukraine strikes, says UK

Russian troops retreated from the southern city of Kherson – the only capital they had seized in the invasion – last Wednesday

The Independent UK

Zelenskyy: Battle for Kherson was D-Day-like watershed

Ukraine’s president is likening the recapture of the southern city of Kherson to the Allied landings in France on D-Day in World War II, saying both were watersheds on the road to eventual victory

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Trudy Rubin: Midterm elections and Russian pullout from Kherson are two victories for democracy

It is fitting that the unexpected U.S. midterm election results emerged just as Russia formally announced its military withdrawal from the key Ukrainian city of Kherson.

Evening Standard

Putin’s Ukraine war can ‘now be stopped’ after Kherson retreat, Zelensky tells G20

Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine can “now be stopped” after his troops were forced into a humiliating retreat from Kherson, president Volodymyr Zelensky told world leaders on Tuesday.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Zelensky from Kherson: Ready for Peace, For All of Ukraine

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday visited Kherson, the southern city from where Russian forces were forced to retreat after months of occupation, according to sources at the Ukrainian presidency and AFP. Ukrainian troops entered Kherson on Friday when Russian troops abandoned the southeastern city which they controlled for the…

The Guardian - AU

PM Mateusz Morawiecki calls for calm after explosion – as it happened

Poland’s PM convenes urgent national security meeting after stray missiles feared to have crossed into Nato member country

Reuters

Russia destroys much of Kherson but not faith in better things to come: residents

Russian forces who destroyed much of the Ukrainian city of Kherson have not killed off the faith that better things will come, some residents said as they gathered at a demolished television tower.

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