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Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 261

As the Russia-Ukraine war enters its 261st day, we take a look at the main developments.

Al Jazeera

Iran and Russia find common ground through Syrian and Ukraine wars

Tehran’s supply of drones to Moscow deepens a collaboration between two unlikely allies

The Guardian - UK

Ukrainians celebrate soldiers retaking Kherson, Russia's latest defeat

Jubilant residents welcomed Ukrainian troops arriving in the centre of Kherson on Friday after Russia abandoned the only regional capital it had captured since its invasion began in February.

Reuters

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A Pussy Riot member describes what Brittney Griner can expect in Russian penal colony

Maria Alyokhina was sent to a penal colony as a member of the feminist punk collective. Authorities "teach you how to forget your right to choose," she says. She urges Griner "to not forget yourself."

WEKU

Ukraine troops surge four miles in just 24 hours as they approach Kherson - army chief

Moscow ordered its troops on Wednesday to withdraw from the entire Russian-held pocket on the west bank of the Dnipro River

Evening Standard

Russia abandons Kherson city and digs in farther east

In the 37th week of Russia’s war in Ukraine, Russia announced a troop withdrawal from the southern city of Kherson.

Al Jazeera

Frontline Ukrainian hamlet enjoys blast-free night for first time since February

For the first time since Moscow launched its full-scale invasion in February, the guns fell silent around Nadiia Nizarenko's devastated hamlet on the frontlines northeast of the Ukrainian city of Kherson.

Reuters

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Withdrawal from Kherson reinforces Russian weakness, Sunak and Zelensky say

The Prime Minister expressed careful optimism over Moscow’s troops being forced to flee Kherson.

The Independent UK

Russia says retreat from key city begun but Ukraine cautious

Ukrainian officials have acknowledged that Russian troops had no choice but to flee a key southern city, but stopped short of declaring victory in Kherson

The Independent UK

‘War of drones’: Ukraine troops push back Russians in Kherson

Ukrainian forces advance cautiously to retake the only regional capital captured by Moscow since the start of the war.

Al Jazeera

What is a penal colony? Brittney Griner follows Navalny and Pussy Riot to notorious ‘concentration camp’ prison

The WNBA star’s lawyers said their client will be transferred to a Russian penal colony in the next few months

The Independent UK

What happened to WNBA star Brittney Griner and why was she detained in Russia?

The basketball star was finally released on 8 December after being detained in Moscow for 10 months

The Independent UK

Russia wants to turn Kherson into 'city of death', Kyiv says

A senior adviser to Ukraine's president said on Thursday Russia wanted to turn Kherson into a "city of death" after Moscow ordered its troops to withdraw from the southern Ukrainian city.

Reuters

Britain has frozen 18 billion pounds worth of Russian assets

The British government said on Thursday it had frozen assets worth more than 18 billion pounds ($20.5 billion) held by Russian oligarchs, other individuals and businesses sanctioned over Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.

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Russia links extension of Black Sea deal to freeing its grain and fertiliser exports

Russia said on Wednesday it still saw no progress on easing its exports of fertilisers and grain - parts of the Black Sea grain deal that Moscow views as fundamental to extending the initiative beyond next week.

The Independent UK

What's 'Putin's chef' cooking up with talk on US meddling?

Kremlin-connected businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin kept a low profile over the years, but he has been increasingly in the spotlight recently

Asharq Al-Awsat

Russia Orders Troops Out of Kherson in Major Reversal

Russia ordered its troops to withdraw from the city of Kherson in southern Ukraine on Wednesday in a further major blow to its campaign amid a Ukrainian counter-offensive. Officials in Kyiv reacted with caution, saying the Russian army was unlikely to leave the strategic city without a fight, while US…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Putin Will Not Attend G20 Summit in Bali

Russian President Vladimir Putin will not attend the G20 leaders' summit on the Indonesian resort island of Bali next week, Moscow's embassy in Indonesia told AFP on Thursday. "I can confirm that (foreign minister) Sergei Lavrov will lead the Russian delegation to the G20.

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The Guardian - AU

Russia-Ukraine war: Russian booby traps turning Kherson into ‘city of death’, says Ukraine official – as it happened

Adviser to head of the office of Ukraine’s president says Russian military have mined apartments and sewers and plan to reduce Kherson to ruins

The Guardian - AU

Kherson retreat shows Russian military has ‘real problems’, says Biden, as Zelenskiy urges caution

US president points to problems in Vladimir Putin’s war machine but Ukraine president warns there is ‘always resistance from the enemy’

Wales Online

Putin appointed deputy head of Kherson killed in car crash

Pro-Moscow Kirill Stremousov, wanted for treason by Kyiv, loses his life in an accident near Henichesk

The Guardian - AU

Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 260 of the invasion

Moscow orders troops to leave Ukraine’s southern city of Kherson in humiliating retreat; Ukraine responds with caution

Reuters

Ukrainian troops reclaim dozens of towns from Russian control, close in on Kherson

Ukrainian troops have reclaimed dozens of landmine-littered settlements abandoned by Russian forces in southern Ukraine, officials said, the day after Moscow announced its withdrawal from the strategic capital city of Kherson province.

Reuters

Biden: Russia's evacuation of Kherson shows they have real problems

U.S. President Joe Biden said Russia's order to evacuate troops from the west bank of the Dnipro River near the Ukrainian city of Kherson showed Moscow was having "real problems" with its military.

WEKU

A Russian-appointed official died in a car crash in Ukraine's Kherson

Born in Ukraine, Kirill Stremousov had switched to Russia's side and mimicked its claims about Nazi rule, becoming spokesman and deputy governor of the Moscow-installed administration in Kherson.

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