The Latest Breaking News from Kherson

Kherson’s military administrators to call for Russian annexation

Unclear if Kremlin will agree to annex captured Ukrainian territory or use threat to put pressure on Kyiv

The Guardian - UK · May 11, 2022

Pro-Moscow leaders of Ukraine's occupied Kherson seek to join Russia - TASS

The Russian-occupied region of Kherson in Ukraine plans to ask President Vladimir Putin to incorporate it into Russia by the end of the year, TASS news agency reported on Wednesday, citing an official from the Russian-controlled administration there.

Reuters · May 11, 2022

Kremlin says it's up to people of occupied Ukraine region to decide whether to join Russia

The Kremlin said on Wednesday it was up to residents living in the Russian-occupied region of Kherson in southern Ukraine to decide whether they wanted to join Russia, but any such decision must have a clear legal basis.

Reuters · May 11, 2022

Live updates | Ukraine: 11 attacks repelled in Donbas region

Ukraine’s General Staff says the country’s forces made some gains on the border of the southern regions of Kherson and Mykolaiv and repelled multiple Russian attacks in the east

The Independent UK · May 5, 2022

Russia seeks to annex occupied Ukraine as invasion goals shift

Nearly 10 weeks into the war and with its troops making only marginal gains in Ukraine’s east, Russia is focused on cementing both military and political control over the territory it has taken so far.

Tribune News Service · May 3, 2022

US: Russia plans to annex separatist statelets in Ukraine

Moscow may annex Luhansk and Donetsk ‘republics’ mid-May and turn Kherson into proxy state, US ambassador to OSCE says.

Al Jazeera · May 3, 2022

US Official: Russia Plans to Annex Parts of Eastern Ukraine

Russia plans to annex much of eastern Ukraine later this month, a senior US official warned, and the Mariupol steel mill that is the city’s last stronghold of resistance came under renewed assault a day after the first evacuation of civilians from the plant. Michael Carpenter, US ambassador to the…

Asharq Al-Awsat · May 3, 2022

Russia-Ukraine war: what we know on day 69 of the invasion

Evacuees from besieged Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol reach Zaporizhzhia; Russia attacks steel works where 200 people remain trapped

The Guardian - AU · May 3, 2022

Russia reroutes internet traffic in occupied Ukraine to its infrastructure

Russia has rerouted internet traffic in the occupied Ukrainian region of Kherson through Russian communications infrastructure, the internet service disruption monitor NetBlocks said on Monday.

Reuters · May 2, 2022

Russian-controlled Kherson forced to begin using rouble

The Russian-occupied city of Kherson has been forced to start using the rouble, British defence chiefs have said.

Evening Standard · May 1, 2022