Ukraine and Russia
The – confrontation is a prolonged, multi-phase conflict that escalated from Russia’s into a , producing shifting front lines, large-scale displacement and entrenched geopolitical rivalry . Battles of...
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Capital city of Kherson Oblast in southern Ukraine
The – confrontation is a prolonged, multi-phase conflict that escalated from Russia’s into a , producing shifting front lines, large-scale displacement and entrenched geopolitical rivalry . Battles of...
Multiple regional Ukrainian outlets and monitoring groups report that Russian forces continued intensive strikes on Kherson in October 2025, with civilian residential areas repeatedly hit, homes destr...
Multiple U.N., human-rights NGOs, media investigations and Ukrainian authorities have documented specific incidents and patterns that they say amount to war crimes by Russian forces: mass killings and...
If Russia is "knowingly" bombing apartment blocks and other civilian sites, UN, Amnesty and OHCHR investigators and multiple monitoring organisations already characterise many such strikes as war crim...
A Human Rights Watch investigation and multiple reports document a sustained campaign of drone attacks in Kherson that killed dozens and injured hundreds between mid‑2024 and 2025; Human Rights Watch ...
Russian public messaging and battlefield reporting show Moscow staking political and military claims over Kherson and Zaporizhia while ground fighting is active but not producing clear advances; multi...
The supplied reports converge on three core claims: heavy fighting around the strategic town of Pokrovsk with contested control, Ukrainian long-range strikes degrading Russian oil refining capacity by...