Kherson

Adviser to head of the office of Ukraine's president says Russian military have mined apartments and sewers and plan to reduce Kherson to ruins.

The same officials said that Iran had sent 450 drones to Russia and would send another 1,000 units of weaponry, including the expected missiles. The Russian-imposed authorities in the region, which Russia claims to have annexed, had been carrying out what it had termed “evacuations”, which authorities in Kyiv had described as forced deportations. Jonathan Landay is in a village near the frontline in Kherson for Reuters, the precise location of which cannot be disclosed due to Ukrainian military rules. “We will be able to survive and I’m sure we can get through the winter.” All events related to organised departures have been discontinued, they are not planned to be resumed.” The family has lived on humanitarian aid, pickled vegetables grown over the summer, water from a nearby well and occasional grocery runs to the town of Bashtanka. Glory to Ukraine!” A small group of civilians applauded nearby. The school where she worked has been reduced to rubble. Her 63-year-old daughter, Svitlana Lischeniuk, who retired last year as the local school director, was suspicious of what would come next, telling the reporter: “[The Russians] can prepare a trap for our army. Russia’s state-owned RIA Novosti news agency is reporting that the Russian-imposed authorities in occupied Kherson are telling residents that it is still possible to leave the city and transfer to the left bank of the Dnipro River, but that it needs to be done by private means. Ukrainian forces have taken the town of Snihurivka on a key route on the approach to Kherson, as Russia said on Thursday it had begun its retreat from the southern city, which was announced in Moscow a day earlier. Moscow also annexed Ukraine’s Crimea peninsula in 2014.