Ukraine Strikes Occupied Kherson as More Civilians Flee

Ukrainian artillery struck the ferry crossing in the southern city of Kherson, the only regional capital captured by Moscow since the February invasion, as Russian forces pounded the cities of Zaporizhzhia and Kharkiv with renewed strikes.

The Russian military had set up ferry crossings after repeated Ukrainian strikes on the Antonivsky bridge, a crucial link with other occupied areas that Russia used to resupply forces in Kherson, made it unusable. The only alternative bridge, over the sluices of the Nova Kakhovka dam upstream, has also been destroyed. That has significantly complicated the logistics of Russian forces in the Kherson area, the only part of Ukraine that they occupy west of the Dnipro River.