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In Ukraine’s Kherson region, civilians flee Russian-held territory on foot

A large swath of southern Ukraine is currently under Russian control, including most of the Kherson region, where Russian forces are preventing civilians from leaving the area. Yet thousands have been making the journey, fraught with risk, to get out. Our correspondent Gulliver Cragg sent this report from Ukrainian-held territory…

France 24

Ukraine's Kherson region prepares for Russian counteroffensives

Fighting continues to rage in southern Ukraine. Here, Russian forces hold the port city of Kherson and they claim to control the whole administrative region, of which Kherson is the capital. But in fact they don’t: Ukrainian counterattacks in March brought a small part of that region back under Kyiv’s…

France 24

In Ukraine, volunteers step up in Mykolaiv

In southern Ukraine, Mykolaiv is the first major city behind the front line, as the nation's army faces off against Russian forces to the southeast in occupied Kherson. As such, the town has seen regular bombardments and nearby combat that led to its water supply being severed in mid-April. Throughout…

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EU countries are ‘almost there’ in agreeing to bloc’s proposed new package of sanctions against Russia – as it happened

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The Guardian - UK

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

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

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.

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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

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

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

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

Some Evacuated from Mariupol; US Lawmaker Pelosi Visits Kyiv

Some women and children have been evacuated from a steel plant that is the last defensive stronghold in the bombed-out ruins of the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, while US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Ukraine's president in the country's capital in a show of American support. Russia's high-stakes offensive in…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Britain says Russia eyes long-term control of Ukraine's Kherson

Russia probably aims to exert strong political and economic influence on Ukraine's southern region of Kherson in the long term, after ruling out its return to Ukrainian control and initiating a currency switch to the rouble, Britain said.

Reuters

Live updates l Blinken says US diplomats to visit Kyiv again

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says American diplomats are making plans to return to Ukraine as soon as possible

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Stress of UK’s Ukrainian visa delays impacted British host’s ‘whole life’

Marcin Zawisza is offering his home to Olena Stadnik, who has been stuck near the Russian-occupied city of Kherson in southern Ukraine.

Reuters

Russian-controlled region of Ukraine will start using rouble, official says -RIA

Ukraine's southern Kherson region will start using the Russian rouble from May 1, an official from a pro-Russian committee which styles itself as the region's "military-civil administration" told Russian news agency RIA.

The Independent UK

Occupied Ukrainian city fears sham Russian referendum plans

While the world’s attention has focused on the fighting around Ukraine’s capital and the east, Russia swiftly captured and has held onto swaths of the country’s southern territory for two months

Daily Mirror

Occupied Ukraine region of Kherson will be forced to 'adopt Russian money'

Russian state news agency RIA-Novosti claims that the captured region of Kerson will be made to use the Russian ruble currency from the start of May with a four-month transition period

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Powerful explosions rock centre of Ukraine city occupied by Russians -RIA news agency

A number of rockets hit the centre of the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson on Wednesday, producing a series of explosions, RIA news agency said.

Reuters

Russian forces disperse pro-Ukraine rally, tighten control in occupied Kherson

Russian forces used tear gas and stun grenades to disperse a pro-Ukraine rally in the occupied city of Kherson on Wednesday, Ukraine's Prosecutor General said, as Moscow tightened its grip over the southern Ukrainian region.

France 24

Video: Russian bombardments leave Mykolaiv residents without water supply

The southern Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv has been without water supply since Russia seized control of most of the Kherson region to the southeast. Mykolaiv got most of its water from Kherson, but the war has left local infrastructure in ruins and residents are struggling to cope. FRANCE 24's Luke…

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Russia says it has liberated Kherson region in southern Ukraine -Interfax

Russia's defence ministry on Tuesday said its forces had liberated the entire Kherson region in the south of Ukraine, Interfax news agency said.

The Conversation

Hundreds of seafarers are still stranded in Ukraine waters – the legal rights of this profession are barely up to standard

While the world’s eyes have been on civilian casualties, forced displacement and potential war crimes on Ukrainian land, the plight of hundreds of seafarers trapped in commercial ships for the past several months has gone mostly unnoticed. They have been stranded in the main Ukrainian ports of Mariupol, Kherson and…

The Guardian - UK

Russia-Ukraine war: what we know on day 61 of the invasion

After Kyiv meeting, US secretary of state says ‘Russia is failing’ while defence secretary insists Ukraine ‘can win’

The Guardian - UK

Back in the USSR: Lenin statues and Soviet flags reappear in Russian-controlled cities

Colonisation appears to have superseded ‘denazification’ in Putin’s military goals for eastern Ukraine

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