In Kherson, the children still train under the drones
Russia has destroyed 221 of the city's sports venues. Its boxers, rowers, and chess players train in the basements beneath them—and still come home with medals.
International monitors confirm Russia’s blockade of occupied Oleshky, where the living starve and the dead go unburied
Four months after Euromaidan Press first reported the siege, the UN, Human Rights Watch, ISW, and the OSCE have all confirmed it. An exiled official says 100 bodies lie unburied in the town's hospital basement.
Trump’s spiritual adviser says he never knew about Kherson’s “human safari”
Pastor Mark Burns pledges to raise Kherson's drone siege with Congress and the president after learning of it for the first time.
Mined in, starved out, hunted from above—life in the towns Russia demands at the peace table
In occupied Oleshky, mined roads trap civilians while Russian drone trainees use food queues as practice targets. Residents call it "safari."
UN traces Kherson’s “human safari” up the chain of command — to Putin himself
Erik Møse, Chair of the UN Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine, which has declared Russia’s drone terror a crime against humanity, explains how investigators traced a direct chain of command—from drone operators on the Dnipro’s left bank to the Kremlin itself.
Highway of fire: Russian drones turn Kherson’s lifeline road into a death trap
Russia's drone siege turns every car ride into a death lottery.
“Every object is a maybe.” Russia’s cheapest traps are killing Ukraine’s scarce bomb experts
“Could be any of this,” the sapper said, pointing to my phone and a Sprite can. In Kherson, he lost his foot finding out.
Inside the secret workshops where Ukraine’s hipster engineers build killer drones
They look like they should be fixing your Wi-Fi or brewing oat milk lattes—but inside a bunker near the frontline, they’re building $300 drones that are outsmarting Russian tanks and rewriting the rules of modern war.
The UN confirmed what I saw in Kherson: Russia is hunting civilians for sport
What I witnessed wasn't random violence—it was systematic hunting.
“First they shell, then they hunt”: Russia’s savage new civilian terror strategy debuts in Kherson
Ambulances, first responders, and civilians became prey in Russia's calculated new warfare technique that turned Kherson into a killing zone on Thursday.
Kherson under brutal assault as Russia plans a new offensive
Living in Kherson means counting time between explosions. As Russia intensifies its bombardment of this strategic river city, artillery barrages and drone strikes mask preparations for a major new offensive.
Ukraine deploys demining drones to break Russia’s Dnipro wall
With no formal training and limited resources, Ukraine's innovative drone operators are clearing the mined river, their DIY tactics becoming the linchpin in the battle for the Dnipro
Russian drones now drop anti-personnel landmines on civilians in Kherson
Russia's drone hunt for civilians in Kherson has intensified: now, the remaining residents of the city can have their legs blown off on a Lepestok
Russian drones hunt civilians, terrorize Kherson with “human safari”
Drone attacks are scarier than shelling: they give no time to run for cover, say residents of a city that Russia pummels incessantly since its liberation two years ago