The Latest Breaking News from Kherson

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.

Russia ordered civilians to leave a sliver of Ukraine along the eastern bank of the Dnipro River, a major extension of an evacuation order that Kyiv says amounts to the forced depopulation of occupied territory. Russia had previously ordered civilians out of a pocket it controls on the west bank…

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…

Russian-installed officials in Ukraine's Kherson region said on Monday they would start evacuating citizens from the eastern bank of the Dnipro river, repeating claims rejected by Kyiv that Ukraine could be preparing to attack the Kakhovka dam and flood the region.

UK’s James Cleverly says Russian president taking things out ‘on the poorest people in the world by threatening their food supplies’

A special team was sent to St Catherine’s Cathedral to remove the bones of Potemkin, the long-term lover of Catherine the Great

Ukrainian military officials say Russian troops are moving moved large numbers of sick and wounded comrades from hospitals in southern Ukraine’s Kherson region

Putin’s defence ministry claims British Navy personnel helped Kyiv plan attack in Crimea

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky said that retreating Russian forces were stealing medical equipment and trying to make the Kherson region, in southern Ukraine, uninhabitable

Russian forces in occupied Kherson are stealing medical equipment and ambulances in a bid to make the area uninhabitable, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says.

Ukrainian forces have made significant gains in recent weeks, recapturing wide swaths of territory in the east and northeast. Now they're bracing for what may be one of their toughest battles yet.