The Latest Breaking News from Kherson

Russian television was now broadcasting in Ukraine's southern Kherson region, the Russian army said on Tuesday in an area where Moscow already introduced the ruble and began distributing Russian passports.

Ukraine news from June 20: Russian troops enter Severodonetsk industrial zone, according to Luhansk’s regional governor.

Ukraine is pursuing a resilient defence and counter-offensive, but Russia is also moving to assimilate occupied regions.

Al Jazeera recaps key events in week 15 of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

The Ukrainian Defence Ministry said on Thursday that its forces had won back some territory from Russian forces in a counter-offensive in the Kherson area of southern Ukraine.

The MoD says Ukrainian defences are ‘holding’ in the industrial city in the Luhansk province of the eastern Donbas region

Russian forces control most of the strategic Ukrainian city of Severodonetsk and are heavily shelling the twin city of Lysychansk, causing major damage, the governor of Luhansk region said on Wednesday. This comes as fighting intensifies in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region. Read about the day’s events as they unfolded on…

While Russian forces are fighting a merciless battle to take the Donbas, Kiev is strengthening its positions in other parts of the country. This is illustrated in the north of Kherson, the city taken by Moscow at the beginning of its invasion of Ukraine. Our reporters Jonathan Walsh and Amar…

Ukraine's Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova said the investigations were focusing on the regions of Mykolaiv and Kherson on the southern coast but gathering evidence was complicated by war