In the island zone of the Kherson region, Russian occupiers continue to lay mines in channels and set up firing positions on certain islands. At the same time, the Defense Forces destroy 2–3 enemy boats every day.

Liberated in 2022, Kherson is still under daily attack from Russian forces across the Dnipro River. Drones now increasingly target civilians in what residents call a “human safari.” The Kyiv Independent’s Francis Farrell and Olena Zashko report from a city living under anti-drone nets and constant surveillance,

The Mango Inquirer has taken his first aid run into the Ukrainian frontline, ignoring warnings that the threat of Russian drone strikes was too great to deliver care packages to children in the besieged city of Kherson.

We report from inside the city, and look at how Ukrainian forces are trying to detect and destroy the Russian drones and where our team finds evidence civilians are being targeted, despite Russian claims they are not. The UN says in the last 18 months, 200 civilians have been killed and 2,000 injured this way.

Ukrainians on the frontline in Kherson tell Olga Tokariuk how they withstand daily enemy attacks – by sheltering under trees, staying indoors on clear days and with netting over the roads.

The total combat losses of Russian troops since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, from February 24, 2022, to December 21, 2025, amount to approximately 1,196,740, including 1,130 in the past 24 hours.

Brendan Cole is a Newsweek Senior News Reporter based in London, UK. His focus is Russia and Ukraine, in particular the war started by Moscow. He also covers other areas of geopolitics including China. Brendan joined Newsweek in 2018 from the International ...

When Russia occupied the Ukrainian city of Kherson last year, local civilians organized a resistance. More than a year after Ukraine liberated the city, its citizens are still fighting. Moscow had seized Kherson just days after it invaded Ukraine in ...

KHERSON, Ukraine — Oleksandr Andrienko lay in a hospital ward in Kherson, his face pale and exhausted, blood still seeping from the bandage around the stump of what had been his lower left leg. Two days earlier, a shell fired by Russian forces just ...