Battle of Kherson

Battle of Kherson
	Part of the Kherson offensive and the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
Date	24 February – 2 March 2022 (6 days)
Location	Kherson, Kherson Oblast, Ukraine
Belligerents
Russia	Ukraine
Units involved
Russian Armed Forces 58th Combined Arms Army 42nd Guards Motor Rifle Division; ; 22nd Army Corps 126th Coastal Defense Brigade; ; Russian Airborne Forces 7th Guards Mountain Air Assault Division;	Ukrainian Armed Forces
Casualties and losses
Many dead Russian soldiers; Ukrainian authorities said that	~300 Ukrainian soldiers and civilians killed; Ukrainian authorities said that

The Battle of Kherson was a military engagement between Russian and Ukrainian forces which began on 24 February 2022, as part of the Kherson offensive during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

On 2 March 2022, Ukrainian forces left Kherson during the battle and Russia took control of the city.^[3]^[4]

Eight months after the battle: the city back under Ukraine's control

Ukraine took again control of the city of Kherson, on 11 November 2022. (Regarding other parts of Kherson Oblast: as of December, Russia was still in control of large parts of Kherson oblast - East of the Dniepr river.)

Battle Of Kherson Media

The Antonovskiy Bridge in 2006

References

↑ "Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, February 25, 2022". Critical Threats. February 25, 2022. Archived from the original on 26 February 2022. Retrieved 26 February 2022.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 "Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, February 25, 2022". Archived from the original on 26 February 2022. Retrieved 26 February 2022.
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 Schwirtz, Michael; Pérez-Peña, Richard (2022-03-02). "First Ukraine City Falls as Russia Strikes More Civilian Targets" (in en-US). The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331 . https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/02/world/europe/kherson-ukraine-russia.html. Retrieved 2022-03-03.
↑ "Russian claims it has seized Kherson as city's mayor agrees to curfew". The Independent. 2022-03-03. Retrieved 2022-03-03.

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[1] "Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, February 25, 2022". Critical Threats. February 25, 2022. Archived from the original on 26 February 2022. Retrieved 26 February 2022.

[feb25-2] 2.0 ^2.1 "Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, February 25, 2022". Archived from the original on 26 February 2022. Retrieved 26 February 2022.

[falls-3] 3.0 ^3.1 Schwirtz, Michael; Pérez-Peña, Richard (2022-03-02). "First Ukraine City Falls as Russia Strikes More Civilian Targets" (in en-US). The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331 . https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/02/world/europe/kherson-ukraine-russia.html. Retrieved 2022-03-03.

[4] "Russian claims it has seized Kherson as city's mayor agrees to curfew". The Independent. 2022-03-03. Retrieved 2022-03-03.

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