Kyiv: The regional center of Kherson in southern Ukraine is surrounded by Russian troops, reports from the area say.
Russian troops had launched a ground assault on the city, located near Moscow-controlled Crimea, earlier this morning, according to eyewitness accounts.
“The Russian army is setting up checkpoints at the entrances of Kherson,” mayor Igor Kolykhayev said on Facebook. “Kherson has been and will stay Ukrainian,” he said.
“The city is actually surrounded, there are a lot of Russian soldiers and military equipment on all sides, they set up checkpoints at the exits,” Kherson-based journalist Alena Panina said on national broadcaster Ukraine 24.
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