Kherson in a sentence

After Mr. Putin’s trip to Kherson, Russian forces a shelled a market in the center of Kherson City, killing one person and wounding at least six others, the head of Mr. Zelensky’s office, Andriy Yermak, wrote on Telegram.

A servicewomen cries as she lays flowers to commemorate those killed in the war, as the city marks one year since Ukraine retook the city of Kherson from occupying Russian forces in Kherson, Ukraine, Saturday, Nov. 11, 2023.

It said Russia fired on the southern city of Kherson and its suburbs more than 60 times, killing one person and injuring seven others across the Kherson province.

To the south, the Ukrainian military said Russian forces made preparations for an offensive in the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions, shelling dozens of towns and villages including the city of Kherson, causing civilian casualties.

And in southern Kherson region, partly controlled by Russian forces, a woman died in Russian shelling of an area outside the main Ukrainian-held city, also known as Kherson.

A 13-year-old boy was wounded in overnight shelling of Ukraine’s partially occupied southern Kherson province, said Oleksandr Tolokonnikov, spokesman for the Ukrainian administration of the province.

A 27-year-old woman and her nine-month-old baby are among those wounded in a Russian attack on the Kherson region in southern Ukraine, according to its governor, Oleksandr Prokudin.

According to multiple eyewitnesses, the shelling targeting major evacuation routes from the city of Kherson, which Ukraine recaptured from Russia’s invading forces in last fall’s counteroffensive.

A farm worker has died and another was injured on Sunday in Ukraine’s southern Kherson region, after their tractor hit a mine while ploughing a field, the governor said.

After the Kherson pullout, Prigozhin, a fierce critic of Gerasimov and Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu, praised Surovikin as "a man who is not afraid of responsibility".

A local resident speaks on her mobile phone on an embankment of the Dnipro river, which flooded after the Nova Kakhovka dam breached, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Kherson, Ukraine June 6, 2023.

Also Sunday, Gov. Oleksandr Prokudin said his Kherson region in Ukraine came under Russian artillery fire 27 times in the past 24 hours, killing one civilian.

Andriana Susak-Arekhta, a Ukrainian special forces weapons sergeant who was wounded by an anti-tank mine during a mission near Kherson last December, said the U.S. must also accelerate its training of F-16 pilots.

An employee at Kherson’s meteorological agency, Lora Musiyan, waded into the water to mark the current level: 5.33 metres above the norm.

As reported by Reuters, the governor of Kherson oblast said an elderly woman was among the wounded.

As Russian forces continue to pummel residential areas in the Kherson region with guided aerial bombs, officials have started mandatory evacuations of children.

A Tampa-based nonprofit is on the ground in Kherson, Ukraine, rescuing residents impacted by the collapse of the Kakhovka dam.

At least three people were wounded in Russian shelling of Kherson city - about 60 km (37 miles) downstream from the dam - during evacuations, Ukrainian police said.

At least three people were wounded in Russian shelling of Kherson city – about 60 km (37 miles) downstream from the dam – during evacuations, Ukrainian police said.

A woman is evacuated from a flooded neighborhood in Kherson, Ukraine, Wednesday, June 7, 2023 after the walls of the Kakhovka dam collapsed.