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The city of Kherson became the first major Ukrainian city to fall to the Russian invasion, according to Fox News.
“There is no Ukrainian army here,” Kherson Mayor Igor Kolykhaev said. “The city is surrounded.”
Ukrainian forces pulled out of the city and relocated to the area of Mykolaiv, a city northwest of Kherson.
Kherson is near the Black Sea and is home to 300,000 people. It’s an important strategical city because of its location near Ukraine’s southern coast.
This would give the Russian military more control of the area as they attempt to push towards the major port city of Odessa.
Odesa is the country’s 3rd-largest city. It is currently bracing for conflict as Russian warships departed from Crimea.
More on the latest developments via Fox News:
The violence of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine hasn’t yet reached Odesa, the country’s third-largest city, but Vladimir Putin’s navy was headed there Wednesday night.
Several Russian warships from Crimea were headed to Odesa. An amphibious assault could come as soon as Thursday, U.S. officials told Fox News.
It comes as Russian forces attack the waterfront cities of Kherson and Mariupol…
The number of Ukrainian refugees expected to top 1 million within next day.
