The Latest Breaking News from Kherson

‘I am happy,’ says Ukrainian leader

Months of Russian occupation are over in Kherson, the strategically crucial Ukrainian port city. The major setback for Vladimir Putin’s troops should decisively end any talk of the United States soon ceasing its support for Ukraine. The chief objective must remain ending the brutal invasion — with hopes that a…

‘We will find and bring to justice every murderer’

Marginal figure whose life changed after Putin’s invasion of Ukraine died in a car crash last week

The Ukrainian president appears openly in front of the main government building in the southern city, and speaks to cheering residents who endured eight months of Russian occupation.

‘We are moving forward’, President Zelensky told soldiers gathered in the recently recaptured city

Many soldiers from the southern port city of Kherson spent months trying to liberate their homes. The Russian retreat last week was a major blow to Moscow's war effort.

Any attempt at calling a ceasefire would currently ‘overwhelmingly’ favour Russia, says a new report from the Institute for the Study of War

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy visited the southern city of Kherson on Monday to celebrate its recapture from Russian forces with joyful residents and troops after months of Russian occupation.

Changes to daylight hours, temperature and weather will present unique challenges for fighting soldiers

President Volodymyr Zelensky said Sunday that Ukrainian forces that retook the city of Kherson found evidence of new war crimes by Russian occupiers. "The Russian army left behind the same atrocities as in other regions of our country," he said in a nightly address. "Investigators have already documented more than…