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Colonel Oleksandr Isaiev. Source: the Book of Executioners, a Ukrainian government project documenting Russian war crimes

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He swore to defend Ukraine, then switched to Russia when it seized Crimea. Twelve years later, Ukrainian FPV drone found him commanding Russian regiment

Colonel Oleksandr Isaiev, a Mykolaiv native who switched to Russia during the seizure of Crimea, died in an FPV drone strike.

byOlena Mukhina

SBU officers in camouflage and tactical gear, seen from behind during an operation.

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He thought Ukrainian army uniform would hide what he did under occupation. It didn’t. Man who guarded Kherson’s Russian-run prison drew eight years

He guarded cells holding captured Ukrainian resistance members, then hid inside the army before the SBU caught him at a training center.

byOlena Mukhina

Screenshot from a video provided by Tetiana Marina, his civilian wife. Source: ZMINA

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Retired Valencia official came to Ukraine to repay debt from Franco’s time. Russia has held him since 2022, and now his Kherson apartment has burned

Mariano García Calatayud has not been seen since Russian forces took him from his own doorstep in March 2022.

byOlena Mukhina

aid ukrainian red cross stockpiled winter kherson burned russian drone attack · post smoke rising over warehouse where caused fire 23 2026 fb kherson784818077_2 ukraine news reports

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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.

byYuri Zoria

Hanna Pyrozhenko, a resident of Pershokostiantynivka in Kherson Oblast. Source: The Crimean Tatar Resource Center

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Russia holds up to 20,000 Ukrainian civilians in captivity. One of newest is teacher who stayed in her occupied village to care for her 83-year-old mother

Russia is replacing detained Ukrainian teachers with its own educators in occupied territories, where they are used to impose propaganda narratives.

byOlena Mukhina

Russia hunts kills protest targets civilians with drones stop human safari save kherson

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Russia hunted civilians by drone in Kherson. Victims are suing the US firm they say helped connect the attackers

A New York networking company sold radios that let signals travel 100 kilometers. Ukrainian civilians say Russian drone…

byZarina Zabrisky

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Two railway workers killed: a Russian jet drone hit their train’s locomotive in Odesa Oblast

The jet-powered Shahed hit the locomotive as the train neared a station — the latest strike in Russia's campaign against Ukraine's railways.

byMaria Tril

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Dispatch

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.

byZarina Zabrisky

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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.

byZarina Zabrisky

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Left-bank Kherson villages have lost gas, lost power — and are burning waste to survive

Residents cook on makeshift stoves using anything that burns as large fires spread through steppe and forests

byMaria Tril

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Russia strikes Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Odesa and Kirovohrad oblasts overnight

A Russian drone struck a car in Kherson's Tsentralnyi district on 2 July, injuring a 58-year-old man

byMaria Tril

russian forces devastate askania-nova reserve relocate animals wild horses askania nova natural biosphere kherson oblast before russia's full-scale invasion

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Crimean zoo owner looted Ukraine’s crown jewel of conservation. Now he’s charged

Ukrainian authorities say a Crimean suspect coordinated with occupation-installed officials to illegally transfer rare animals from the Askania-Nova biosphere reserve to occupied Crimea, resulting in losses of about $1.5 million.

byOlena Mukhina

Liberate kherson crimes long range strikes azov

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Azov Corps: Kherson 2.0 is next, then Crimea. Russia has no way to resupply them.

Not an analyst or a politician—the corps fighting the campaign said it.

byAlya Shandra

Aftermath of the strike on the Chonhar Bridge (archive photo) (Photo: Alexander Polegenko / TASS)

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Analysis

Russian forces depend on Crimea. Ukraine is turning it into an island.

“Crimea is the center of gravity of this war for the Russians”

byIgor Kossov

Ukrainian teenagers in Avangard camp uniforms pose with flags of four Russian-occupied Ukrainian regions in front of the Motherland Calls statue at Mamayev Kurgan in Volgograd

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Russia trained 900 more Ukrainian children at Volgograd — a camp Britain already sanctioned in 2024

More than 900 Ukrainian children completed military training at a Volgograd camp, the resistance movement Yellow Ribbon reported…

byDaniel Thomas

russian air-defense crews now hunted ukraine bolts rocket pods its long-range drones · post nasa firms satellite detection fire arabat spit kherson oblast after ukrainian drone strike 0258 17 2026

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Chonhar bridge halted twice, now Arabat Spit crossing hit — Kherson’s occupied south loses two routes

Vladimir Saldo said eight municipalities lost power overnight in a separate Ukrainian drone attack on the same oblast.

byMaria Tril

sbu names 10 russians tied human safari drone hunt civilians kherson · post munition dropped russian explodes near two 2024 explosion civilian khersoners telegram channels ten soldiers single regiment accused

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SBU names 10 Russians tied to “human safari” drone hunt on civilians in Kherson

Counterintelligence built a case against Russian military drone pilots from a single regiment and charged each in absentia with war crimes.

byYuri Zoria

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Interview

“It was never formulated as Ukraine winning”—NATO’s ex-military chief on the missing strategy

It was also not formulated, "We're doing this so that Russia can lose this war." So the formulation became, "We're going to support Ukraine for as long as it takes," Admiral Bauer tells EP

byAlya Shandra

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Russia strikes Ukraine with Iskander-M, 6 Kh-101 missiles and 290 drones, killing 1 in Zaporizhzhia

Air defenses intercepted 284 of nearly 300 incoming weapons overnight on 30 May, yet debris and impacts damaged civilian sites across three oblasts.

byMaria Tril

n attack on the headquarters of the Russian FSB

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Ukrainian strike on Russian FSB and Pantsir-S1 kills or injures around 100 Russian troops – Zelenskyy says

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced the strike in a Facebook video and attributed it to the SBU's Special Operations Center "A."

byMaria Tril

Kherson

He swore to defend Ukraine, then switched to Russia when it seized Crimea. Twelve years later, Ukrainian FPV drone found him commanding Russian regiment

He thought Ukrainian army uniform would hide what he did under occupation. It didn’t. Man who guarded Kherson’s Russian-run prison drew eight years

Retired Valencia official came to Ukraine to repay debt from Franco’s time. Russia has held him since 2022, and now his Kherson apartment has burned

Aid the Ukrainian Red Cross stockpiled for winter in Kherson burned in a Russian drone attack

Russia holds up to 20,000 Ukrainian civilians in captivity. One of newest is teacher who stayed in her occupied village to care for her 83-year-old mother

Russia hunted civilians by drone in Kherson. Victims are suing the US firm they say helped connect the attackers

Two railway workers killed: a Russian jet drone hit their train’s locomotive in Odesa Oblast

International monitors confirm Russia’s blockade of occupied Oleshky, where the living starve and the dead go unburied

Trump’s spiritual adviser says he never knew about Kherson’s “human safari”

Left-bank Kherson villages have lost gas, lost power — and are burning waste to survive

Russia strikes Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Odesa and Kirovohrad oblasts overnight

Crimean zoo owner looted Ukraine’s crown jewel of conservation. Now he’s charged

Azov Corps: Kherson 2.0 is next, then Crimea. Russia has no way to resupply them.

Russian forces depend on Crimea. Ukraine is turning it into an island.

Russia trained 900 more Ukrainian children at Volgograd — a camp Britain already sanctioned in 2024

Chonhar bridge halted twice, now Arabat Spit crossing hit — Kherson’s occupied south loses two routes

SBU names 10 Russians tied to “human safari” drone hunt on civilians in Kherson

“It was never formulated as Ukraine winning”—NATO’s ex-military chief on the missing strategy

Russia strikes Ukraine with Iskander-M, 6 Kh-101 missiles and 290 drones, killing 1 in Zaporizhzhia

Ukrainian strike on Russian FSB and Pantsir-S1 kills or injures around 100 Russian troops – Zelenskyy says

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