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Kherson (Ukrainian and Russian: Херсон, Ukrainian: ⓘ; Russian: [xʲɪrˈson]) is a port city in southern Ukraine that serves as the administrative centre of Kherson Oblast. Located by the Black Sea and on the Dnieper River , Kherson is the home to a major ship-building industry and is a regional economic centre. [ 5 ]
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A military counteroffensive was launched by Ukraine on 29 August 2022 to expel Russian forces occupying the southern regions of Kherson and Mykolaiv oblasts.. Military analysts consider the counteroffensive to be the third strategic phase of the war in Ukraine, along with the concurrent eastern counteroffensive, after the initial invasion and the battle of Donbas.
Kherson was the first major Ukrainian city to fall during the invasion, and the only regional capital that Russia managed to capture in the 2022 invasion, though the cities of Donetsk and Luhansk had been controlled by Russian-backed separatists since 2014. Most of the rest of Kherson Oblast fell to Russian forces in the early months of the ...
Kherson flooded on 7 June 2023 Flood in Kherson Oblast on 10 June 2023. On 6 June, Ukrainian colonel Anatolii Shtefan said that Russian forces had blown up private ponds close to the villages of Peremozhne and Hannivka in occupied Zaporizhzhia Oblast to stop an incoming Ukrainian counteroffensive in the region. [286]
Following the annexation referendums in Kherson and Zaporizhzhia oblasts, the Russian military-civilian administrations of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia proclaimed independence as an intermediate step for Russian annexation. [27] [failed verification] The day after the referendums were held, the KMCA proclaimed the independence of the 'Kherson region'.
After capturing Kherson, Russia began a military occupation of the city and surrounding region. [35] [36] They used force to suppress protests by the local population. [37] [38] On 22 March, a Ukrainian official warned that Kherson was facing a "humanitarian catastrophe" as the city was running out of food and medical supplies. It accused ...
The loss of Kherson has been widely regarded as a significant blow to Vladimir Putin, who on 30 September said that Kherson would be "part of Russia forever". [24] On 12 November, the occupying forces declared Henichesk , a port city on the Sea of Azov , to be the "temporary administrative capital of the Kherson region". [ 25 ]