NPR's Brian Mann spends time with a Ukrainian mobile artillery unit as they prep their Soviet-era mobile cannon for a nighttime attack. Their goal? Stop Russia from crossing the Dnipro River and taking Kherson.

Russia is "watching this rather dramatic development of the situation very closely," President Vladimir Putin's spokesperson said.

Ukraine targeted five of Russia's air defense systems worth an estimated $350 million in a single day, serving a blow to Russian President Vladimir Putin's exhausted military in the nearly three-year-old war.

The military of the aggressor country of the russian federation is preparing for assault operations in the Kherson Region, expecting heavy losses of

The 25-year-old soldier was captured by Russian forces in May 2022 ‘while defending civilians in Mariupol’ said family

Russia’s Defense Ministry is claiming that its troops in eastern Ukraine have captured the town of Kurakhove after a monthslong battle.

In Ukraine’s Kherson region, in the village of Tiahynka, a Russian FPV dron dropped an explosive payload on a civilian vehicle, killing a man. — Ukrinform.

In the initial days of the war, everyone thought that Ukraine would be crushed by Russia in a week. But the territorial and civilian groups—which also had trained civilians in them—fought the Russians and managed to defend themselves.

That might leave a fifth of Ukraine under Russian occupation, and the size of this area could easily expand in the coming months if the Kremlin intensifies its offensive, which has been gaining ground.

The Kremlin has been discussing Donald Trump's claims that a meeting between him and Vladimir Putin is being set up. Meanwhile, Russian elites are concerned with Vladimir Putin's efforts to wage a full-scale war in Ukraine.