Ukraine brings 14 more children home from Russian-occupied Kherson Oblast. One of them was being forced onto Russia’s military rolls
This year's returns from the occupied south now reach 204.
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Russian troops enter homes and threaten starving Oleshky residents for food and alcohol, officials say
Residents who escaped the occupied Kherson Oblast city describe threats and abuse by Russian troops amid severe shortages of food, water, and medicine.
Russia holds 2,000 people hostage in Oleshky without food or water—Ukraine flew 4,000 kg of food to locals across the Dnipro
Six military units coordinated one of the largest cross-Dnipro supply operations to the city Russia has turned into a starvation trap.
Thousands are starving in occupied Oleshky. People have no food, no way out, and Russian forces bomb incoming aid
More than 6,000 people, including around 200 children, may remain trapped in the Russian-occupied city, where civilians lack food, water and medicine and some are risking mined fields to escape.
“There is real hunger there”: Oleshky, occupied town in Ukraine’s Kherson Oblast, turned 942 this week. Behind Russian blockade, its people eat roadside grass
The 942-year-old Kherson city has spent months cut off, its aid convoys shelled.
Russian Church installs Soviet military veteran to lead occupation-created diocese in Kherson Oblast
After Patriarch Kirill consecrated him in Moscow, Igor Pashentsev will oversee Russian Orthodox parishes across five occupied Kherson districts.
Russia destroyed last of Kherson’s heat and power equipment on 26 August. Ukraine’s new defense minister arrived days later
Yevhenii Khmara met the regional governor days after glide bombs wrecked the city's power plant.
Aid the Ukrainian Red Cross stockpiled for winter in Kherson burned in a Russian drone attack
Alongside the cold-weather equipment, the warehouse held the emergency materials aid workers use to close up buildings torn open by Russian strikes, the Ukrainian Red Cross says.
Second Russian MiG-29 in two days: Ukraine’s drones worked over Millerovo airbase
Four radar sets went down the same night, along with a plant SBS calls a solid-rocket-fuel works and two shadow-fleet ships—all named by Ukraine's drone commander.
A 12-year-old dies in occupied Kherson Oblast where no hospital or ambulance is left, Ukrainian official says
The official says the nearest hospital in the town where the child died is 60 km away. Russian authorities have sent no aid to the city for over a year
47 sites destroyed, 1,943 damaged: Russia’s toll on Ukrainian heritage keeps climbing
Ukraine's culture ministry counts close to 2,000 heritage sites hit since 2022, with 90 more added in just the last month.
ISW: Russia has taken just 81 km² of Ukraine this year—while claiming 2,226
The false picture is not just propaganda for the public but material that appears to reach the desk of Russia's leader, the think tank says.
Drones found the FSB where it felt safest—a seaside resort deep in occupied Kherson Oblast
The SBU's Alpha unit's strike set off a large blaze at a base ringed by checkpoints, guards and bunkers.
35 ships in four days: Ukraine’s campaign against Russia’s Azov Sea fuel run keeps widening
12 more shadow fleet riverine tankers, a cargo ship, and a tug among the latest targets.
“Just give me some proof that my son is alive”: Mother from Kherson spends five years searching for her son, taken away by Russians from Oleshky boarding school
Emil foundation names four reasons Russia holds adult Ukrainians with disabilities.
Ukraine’s drone force wrecked almost 200 Russian air defense assets since year-start—31 in June alone
A late-June sweep added a Pantsir gun-missile system and two radars in occupied Crimea.
Russian strike on a Norwegian charity’s demining team kills two, wounds four in Kherson Oblast
The workers were clearing mines to make farmland safe when the strike hit, the group said.
24-year-old foreign deminer came to clear Russia’s mines in Kherson. Russian shelling killed him and wounded four colleagues
Four colleagues were wounded, two fighting for their lives, in the latest Russian strike to hit humanitarian mine clearers.
HUR: Russia dumping anthrax-infected animal carcasses across occupied Kherson, creating long-term environmental contamination risks
Ukraine warns that anthrax spores can remain viable in soil for decades, raising concerns about long-term contamination.
Ukraine arrests eight people accused of cheering on Russian strikes from inside the country and spying
The cases run from Kyiv to Odesa, and one suspect allegedly urged Russia to hit Ukraine with a nuclear missile.