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Why Kherson Is Key to Vladimir Putin’s War as Counter-Offensive Begins
Kherson was the first major city to fall to Russia after Vladimir Putin launched his full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Now it has become the focus of a reported counteroffensive by Kyiv’s forces to take it back.