The clashes took place in the country’s Kherson region, where Moscow’s forces made significant gains early in the war. While independent verification of action on the battlefield has been difficult, the British Ministry of Defense said in an intelligence report that several Ukrainian brigades had stepped up their artillery fire in front-line sectors in southern Ukraine. Ukrainian authorities have kept the world guessing about their intentions, avoiding talk of a major counteroffensive for the past two days. Oleksandr Shulga stands in front of his damaged home after a rocket attack in Mykolaiv on Monday. (Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP/Getty Images) The port city of Kherson, with a population of around 300,000 before the war, is a major economic hub near the Black Sea and the first major city to fall to the Russians in the war that began six months ago. The port remains at the heart of Ukraine’s efforts to maintain its vital access to the sea, while Russia sees it as a key point in a land corridor that runs from its border to the Crimean peninsula, which it seized in 2014. The occupying forces have spoken of plans to hold a referendum to make the Kherson region part of Russia and have pressured residents to take Russian citizenship and stop using Ukraine’s currency.
Explosions were reported in Kherson
Ukraine’s presidential office said “fierce fighting is underway almost throughout” the region. Ukrainian forces, the office said, destroyed ammunition depots and all major bridges across the Dnieper River vital to supplying Russian troops. The Ukrainian military said on Tuesday night that the Russians were shelling more than 15 settlements in the Kherson region and resorting to airstrikes. A girl and her mother stand in front of a damaged school building after a rocket attack in Druzhkivka, Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, on Tuesday. (Anatolii Stepanov/AFP/Getty Images) The British said most of the Russian units around Kherson “are probably undermanned and dependent on fragile supply lines”, while its forces there are undergoing major reorganisation. Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov said its forces were holding up well and that Ukraine had lost hundreds of troops, tanks and other armored vehicles in Monday’s action. His claim could not be independently verified. Ukrainian independent military analyst Oleh Zhdanov told The Associated Press that “it will be possible to talk about the effectiveness of Ukrainian actions only after major cities are recaptured.” He added that Ukrainian forces had breached the first and second lines of defense in the Kherson region several times in the past, “but it did not bring results.” “The most important thing is the work of the Ukrainian artillery on the bridges, which the Russian army can no longer use,” Zhdanov said. WATCHES | Estonia bans Russian tourists:
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More civilian deaths were reported
The war has turned into a stalemate in recent months, with casualties and destruction mounting and the population bearing the brunt of the suffering during relentless bombing in the east and south. In other battlefield reports, at least nine civilians were killed in more Russian shelling, Ukrainian officials said, from the Black Sea port of Mykolaiv to the northeastern industrial center of Kharkiv, where five were killed in the city center. Local residents stand on the balcony of their damaged home after shelling in Kharkiv on Tuesday. (Sergei Bobok/AFP/Getty Images) The fighting is complicating what could be a treacherous journey from Kyiv to Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, Zaporizhzhia, by an inspection team from the UN atomic energy agency. Specialists may have to pass through areas of active fighting, with no publicly announced ceasefire, to reach the Russian-held factory, where shelling has sparked fears of destruction. Ukraine and Russia accuse each other of repeatedly bombing the region. Nikopoli, a town just across the Dnieper from the plant, was again hit by a barrage of heavy shelling, local authorities said, with damage to a bus station, shops and a children’s library. And a Russian missile attack targeted the city of Zaporizhzhia, about 50 kilometers from the plant, Ukraine said. Zaporizhzhia residents line up at the local administration office on Monday to receive iodine tablets in the city’s eastern Khortytskyi district. Fears of a nuclear accident at Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, near the Russian-held town of Enerhodar, remain high. (Dmytro Smolienko/Reuters) In other developments:
The first ship carrying grain from war-torn Ukraine for people in the world’s hungriest ports has docked at the port of Djibouti in the Horn of Africa as deadly drought and conflict grip East Africa. The wheat goes to Ethiopia. European Union nations have been divided over whether to impose a broad visa ban on Russian citizens, torn between a desire to increase pressure on President Vladimir Putin and concern about punishing people who do not support his war. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said his country is well prepared to face a potential energy shortage due to Russia’s pressure on European gas supplies. Russia has cut off or reduced the flow of natural gas to a dozen EU countries, raising fears ahead of winter. Seven Baltic Sea countries have announced plans to increase wind power generation sevenfold by 2030 to free Northern Europe from its dependence on Russian gas. The Vatican has defended Pope Francis against claims that he has not sufficiently criticized Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, saying the pontiff clearly sees the war as “meaningless, disgusting and sacrilegious”.
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The clashes took place in the country’s Kherson region, where Moscow’s forces made significant gains early in the war. While independent verification of action on the battlefield has been difficult, the British Ministry of Defense said in an intelligence report that several Ukrainian brigades had stepped up their artillery fire in front-line sectors in southern Ukraine. Ukrainian authorities have kept the world guessing about their intentions, avoiding talk of a major counteroffensive for the past two days. Oleksandr Shulga stands in front of his damaged home after a rocket attack in Mykolaiv on Monday. (Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP/Getty Images) The port city of Kherson, with a population of around 300,000 before the war, is a major economic hub near the Black Sea and the first major city to fall to the Russians in the war that began six months ago. The port remains at the heart of Ukraine’s efforts to maintain its vital access to the sea, while Russia sees it as a key point in a land corridor that runs from its border to the Crimean peninsula, which it seized in 2014. The occupying forces have spoken of plans to hold a referendum to make the Kherson region part of Russia and have pressured residents to take Russian citizenship and stop using Ukraine’s currency.
Explosions were reported in Kherson
Ukraine’s presidential office said “fierce fighting is underway almost throughout” the region. Ukrainian forces, the office said, destroyed ammunition depots and all major bridges across the Dnieper River vital to supplying Russian troops. The Ukrainian military said on Tuesday night that the Russians were shelling more than 15 settlements in the Kherson region and resorting to airstrikes. A girl and her mother stand in front of a damaged school building after a rocket attack in Druzhkivka, Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, on Tuesday. (Anatolii Stepanov/AFP/Getty Images) The British said most of the Russian units around Kherson “are probably undermanned and dependent on fragile supply lines”, while its forces there are undergoing major reorganisation. Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov said its forces were holding up well and that Ukraine had lost hundreds of troops, tanks and other armored vehicles in Monday’s action. His claim could not be independently verified. Ukrainian independent military analyst Oleh Zhdanov told The Associated Press that “it will be possible to talk about the effectiveness of Ukrainian actions only after major cities are recaptured.” He added that Ukrainian forces had breached the first and second lines of defense in the Kherson region several times in the past, “but it did not bring results.” “The most important thing is the work of the Ukrainian artillery on the bridges, which the Russian army can no longer use,” Zhdanov said. WATCHES | Estonia bans Russian tourists:
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More civilian deaths were reported
The war has turned into a stalemate in recent months, with casualties and destruction mounting and the population bearing the brunt of the suffering during relentless bombing in the east and south. In other battlefield reports, at least nine civilians were killed in more Russian shelling, Ukrainian officials said, from the Black Sea port of Mykolaiv to the northeastern industrial center of Kharkiv, where five were killed in the city center. Local residents stand on the balcony of their damaged home after shelling in Kharkiv on Tuesday. (Sergei Bobok/AFP/Getty Images) The fighting is complicating what could be a treacherous journey from Kyiv to Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, Zaporizhzhia, by an inspection team from the UN atomic energy agency. Specialists may have to pass through areas of active fighting, with no publicly announced ceasefire, to reach the Russian-held factory, where shelling has sparked fears of destruction. Ukraine and Russia accuse each other of repeatedly bombing the region. Nikopoli, a town just across the Dnieper from the plant, was again hit by a barrage of heavy shelling, local authorities said, with damage to a bus station, shops and a children’s library. And a Russian missile attack targeted the city of Zaporizhzhia, about 50 kilometers from the plant, Ukraine said. Zaporizhzhia residents line up at the local administration office on Monday to receive iodine tablets in the city’s eastern Khortytskyi district. Fears of a nuclear accident at Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, near the Russian-held town of Enerhodar, remain high. (Dmytro Smolienko/Reuters) In other developments:
The first ship carrying grain from war-torn Ukraine for people in the world’s hungriest ports has docked at the port of Djibouti in the Horn of Africa as deadly drought and conflict grip East Africa. The wheat goes to Ethiopia. European Union nations have been divided over whether to impose a broad visa ban on Russian citizens, torn between a desire to increase pressure on President Vladimir Putin and concern about punishing people who do not support his war. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said his country is well prepared to face a potential energy shortage due to Russia’s pressure on European gas supplies. Russia has cut off or reduced the flow of natural gas to a dozen EU countries, raising fears ahead of winter. Seven Baltic Sea countries have announced plans to increase wind power generation sevenfold by 2030 to free Northern Europe from its dependence on Russian gas. The Vatican has defended Pope Francis against claims that he has not sufficiently criticized Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, saying the pontiff clearly sees the war as “meaningless, disgusting and sacrilegious”.
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The clashes took place in the country’s Kherson region, where Moscow’s forces made significant gains early in the war. While independent verification of action on the battlefield has been difficult, the British Ministry of Defense said in an intelligence report that several Ukrainian brigades had stepped up their artillery fire in front-line sectors in southern Ukraine. Ukrainian authorities have kept the world guessing about their intentions, avoiding talk of a major counteroffensive for the past two days. Oleksandr Shulga stands in front of his damaged home after a rocket attack in Mykolaiv on Monday. (Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP/Getty Images) The port city of Kherson, with a population of around 300,000 before the war, is a major economic hub near the Black Sea and the first major city to fall to the Russians in the war that began six months ago. The port remains at the heart of Ukraine’s efforts to maintain its vital access to the sea, while Russia sees it as a key point in a land corridor that runs from its border to the Crimean peninsula, which it seized in 2014. The occupying forces have spoken of plans to hold a referendum to make the Kherson region part of Russia and have pressured residents to take Russian citizenship and stop using Ukraine’s currency.
Explosions were reported in Kherson
Ukraine’s presidential office said “fierce fighting is underway almost throughout” the region. Ukrainian forces, the office said, destroyed ammunition depots and all major bridges across the Dnieper River vital to supplying Russian troops. The Ukrainian military said on Tuesday night that the Russians were shelling more than 15 settlements in the Kherson region and resorting to airstrikes. A girl and her mother stand in front of a damaged school building after a rocket attack in Druzhkivka, Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, on Tuesday. (Anatolii Stepanov/AFP/Getty Images) The British said most of the Russian units around Kherson “are probably undermanned and dependent on fragile supply lines”, while its forces there are undergoing major reorganisation. Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov said its forces were holding up well and that Ukraine had lost hundreds of troops, tanks and other armored vehicles in Monday’s action. His claim could not be independently verified. Ukrainian independent military analyst Oleh Zhdanov told The Associated Press that “it will be possible to talk about the effectiveness of Ukrainian actions only after major cities are recaptured.” He added that Ukrainian forces had breached the first and second lines of defense in the Kherson region several times in the past, “but it did not bring results.” “The most important thing is the work of the Ukrainian artillery on the bridges, which the Russian army can no longer use,” Zhdanov said. WATCHES | Estonia bans Russian tourists:
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More civilian deaths were reported
The war has turned into a stalemate in recent months, with casualties and destruction mounting and the population bearing the brunt of the suffering during relentless bombing in the east and south. In other battlefield reports, at least nine civilians were killed in more Russian shelling, Ukrainian officials said, from the Black Sea port of Mykolaiv to the northeastern industrial center of Kharkiv, where five were killed in the city center. Local residents stand on the balcony of their damaged home after shelling in Kharkiv on Tuesday. (Sergei Bobok/AFP/Getty Images) The fighting is complicating what could be a treacherous journey from Kyiv to Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, Zaporizhzhia, by an inspection team from the UN atomic energy agency. Specialists may have to pass through areas of active fighting, with no publicly announced ceasefire, to reach the Russian-held factory, where shelling has sparked fears of destruction. Ukraine and Russia accuse each other of repeatedly bombing the region. Nikopoli, a town just across the Dnieper from the plant, was again hit by a barrage of heavy shelling, local authorities said, with damage to a bus station, shops and a children’s library. And a Russian missile attack targeted the city of Zaporizhzhia, about 50 kilometers from the plant, Ukraine said. Zaporizhzhia residents line up at the local administration office on Monday to receive iodine tablets in the city’s eastern Khortytskyi district. Fears of a nuclear accident at Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, near the Russian-held town of Enerhodar, remain high. (Dmytro Smolienko/Reuters) In other developments:
The first ship carrying grain from war-torn Ukraine for people in the world’s hungriest ports has docked at the port of Djibouti in the Horn of Africa as deadly drought and conflict grip East Africa. The wheat goes to Ethiopia. European Union nations have been divided over whether to impose a broad visa ban on Russian citizens, torn between a desire to increase pressure on President Vladimir Putin and concern about punishing people who do not support his war. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said his country is well prepared to face a potential energy shortage due to Russia’s pressure on European gas supplies. Russia has cut off or reduced the flow of natural gas to a dozen EU countries, raising fears ahead of winter. Seven Baltic Sea countries have announced plans to increase wind power generation sevenfold by 2030 to free Northern Europe from its dependence on Russian gas. The Vatican has defended Pope Francis against claims that he has not sufficiently criticized Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, saying the pontiff clearly sees the war as “meaningless, disgusting and sacrilegious”.
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The clashes took place in the country’s Kherson region, where Moscow’s forces made significant gains early in the war. While independent verification of action on the battlefield has been difficult, the British Ministry of Defense said in an intelligence report that several Ukrainian brigades had stepped up their artillery fire in front-line sectors in southern Ukraine. Ukrainian authorities have kept the world guessing about their intentions, avoiding talk of a major counteroffensive for the past two days. Oleksandr Shulga stands in front of his damaged home after a rocket attack in Mykolaiv on Monday. (Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP/Getty Images) The port city of Kherson, with a population of around 300,000 before the war, is a major economic hub near the Black Sea and the first major city to fall to the Russians in the war that began six months ago. The port remains at the heart of Ukraine’s efforts to maintain its vital access to the sea, while Russia sees it as a key point in a land corridor that runs from its border to the Crimean peninsula, which it seized in 2014. The occupying forces have spoken of plans to hold a referendum to make the Kherson region part of Russia and have pressured residents to take Russian citizenship and stop using Ukraine’s currency.
Explosions were reported in Kherson
Ukraine’s presidential office said “fierce fighting is underway almost throughout” the region. Ukrainian forces, the office said, destroyed ammunition depots and all major bridges across the Dnieper River vital to supplying Russian troops. The Ukrainian military said on Tuesday night that the Russians were shelling more than 15 settlements in the Kherson region and resorting to airstrikes. A girl and her mother stand in front of a damaged school building after a rocket attack in Druzhkivka, Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, on Tuesday. (Anatolii Stepanov/AFP/Getty Images) The British said most of the Russian units around Kherson “are probably undermanned and dependent on fragile supply lines”, while its forces there are undergoing major reorganisation. Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov said its forces were holding up well and that Ukraine had lost hundreds of troops, tanks and other armored vehicles in Monday’s action. His claim could not be independently verified. Ukrainian independent military analyst Oleh Zhdanov told The Associated Press that “it will be possible to talk about the effectiveness of Ukrainian actions only after major cities are recaptured.” He added that Ukrainian forces had breached the first and second lines of defense in the Kherson region several times in the past, “but it did not bring results.” “The most important thing is the work of the Ukrainian artillery on the bridges, which the Russian army can no longer use,” Zhdanov said. WATCHES | Estonia bans Russian tourists:
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More civilian deaths were reported
The war has turned into a stalemate in recent months, with casualties and destruction mounting and the population bearing the brunt of the suffering during relentless bombing in the east and south. In other battlefield reports, at least nine civilians were killed in more Russian shelling, Ukrainian officials said, from the Black Sea port of Mykolaiv to the northeastern industrial center of Kharkiv, where five were killed in the city center. Local residents stand on the balcony of their damaged home after shelling in Kharkiv on Tuesday. (Sergei Bobok/AFP/Getty Images) The fighting is complicating what could be a treacherous journey from Kyiv to Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, Zaporizhzhia, by an inspection team from the UN atomic energy agency. Specialists may have to pass through areas of active fighting, with no publicly announced ceasefire, to reach the Russian-held factory, where shelling has sparked fears of destruction. Ukraine and Russia accuse each other of repeatedly bombing the region. Nikopoli, a town just across the Dnieper from the plant, was again hit by a barrage of heavy shelling, local authorities said, with damage to a bus station, shops and a children’s library. And a Russian missile attack targeted the city of Zaporizhzhia, about 50 kilometers from the plant, Ukraine said. Zaporizhzhia residents line up at the local administration office on Monday to receive iodine tablets in the city’s eastern Khortytskyi district. Fears of a nuclear accident at Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, near the Russian-held town of Enerhodar, remain high. (Dmytro Smolienko/Reuters) In other developments:
The first ship carrying grain from war-torn Ukraine for people in the world’s hungriest ports has docked at the port of Djibouti in the Horn of Africa as deadly drought and conflict grip East Africa. The wheat goes to Ethiopia. European Union nations have been divided over whether to impose a broad visa ban on Russian citizens, torn between a desire to increase pressure on President Vladimir Putin and concern about punishing people who do not support his war. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said his country is well prepared to face a potential energy shortage due to Russia’s pressure on European gas supplies. Russia has cut off or reduced the flow of natural gas to a dozen EU countries, raising fears ahead of winter. Seven Baltic Sea countries have announced plans to increase wind power generation sevenfold by 2030 to free Northern Europe from its dependence on Russian gas. The Vatican has defended Pope Francis against claims that he has not sufficiently criticized Russia for its invasion of Ukraine, saying the pontiff clearly sees the war as “meaningless, disgusting and sacrilegious”.
