The Latest Breaking News from Kherson

Two Haryana girls are still stuck in war-torn Ukraine’s Kherson city, according to a Bundi social activist, who said they are left with little food and spending their nights in the cold.

Week three of two female journalists’ first-hand account of the Russian occupation of the Ukrainian city

Farmers in Ukraine describe depleting potato stocks, slaughtering their own pigs, and Russian troops appearing at the gate

Desperate to save their son and daughter but unable to reach them across Russian checkpoints, two parents tell The Independent of their heartache

Vote would have echoes of 2014 referendums in Crimea and in ‘breakaway republics’ in east

One death confirmed in Kyiv after Russian shelling overnight

The Russian military claims to have taken control of the Kherson region in the south of Ukraine, which includes port town Kakhovka and river port Nova Kakhovka.

The UN says it expects the number of Ukrainian refugees to reach at least four million, while Poland’s PM announced he and his counterparts from the Czech Republic and Slovenia are now in Kyiv

In its scale and cost, as well as its broader implications for European and international security, Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine constitutes a new low in the foreign policy of Russian president Vladimir Putin. But below the surface, Russia is also following established playbooks in how it deals with…