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Kherson Oblast
Russian: Херсонская область Ukrainian: Херсонська область | |
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Military occupation and annexation | |
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 Kherson Oblast: Ukrainian territory never occupied | |
 Kherson Oblast – with Snihurivka's environs and the outer Kinburn Peninsula attached[b] – Russian territorial claim since 30 September 2022:
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| Occupied country | Ukraine |
| Occupying power | Russia |
| Russian-installed occupation regime | Kherson military-civilian administration[a] (28 April[1] – 30 September 2022) |
| Disputed oblast of Russia | Kherson Oblast[c] (2022–present) |
| Battle of Kherson | 2 March 2022 |
| Annexation by Russia | 30 September 2022 |
| Kherson counteroffensive (Liberation of Kherson) | 10–11 November 2022 |
| Administrative centre[d] | Kherson (2 March 2022 – 9 November 2022; de jure since 9 November 2022) Henichesk (de facto, 9 November – present) |
| Largest settlement | Kherson (until 11 November 2022) Nova Kakhovka (since 11 November 2022) |
| Government | |
| • Governor | Vladimir Saldo (United Russia)[2] |
| • Prime Minister | Andrey Alekseyenko (United Russia) |
| Website | khogov |
The Russian occupation of Kherson Oblast (Russian: Херсонская область, romanized: Khersonskaya oblast') is an ongoing military occupation of Ukraine's Kherson Oblast by Russian forces that began on 2 March 2022 during the Russian invasion of Ukraine as part of the southern Ukraine campaign. It was administrated under a Russian-controlled military-civilian administration until 30 September 2022, when it was illegally annexed to become an unrecognized federal subject of Russia.
Russia captured the city of Kherson on 2 March 2022. Kherson was the first major Ukrainian city to fall during the invasion, and the only regional capital that Russia managed to capture in the 2022 invasion, though the cities of Donetsk and Luhansk had been controlled by Russian-backed separatists since 2014. Most of the rest of Kherson Oblast fell to Russian forces in the early months of the invasion.[3]
Russia laid the groundwork for annexation in the following months by introducing the Russian ruble as official currency and forcibly removing the hryvnia from circulation.[4] After holding staged referendums in September 2022,[5] Russia declared that it had annexed Kherson Oblast on 30 September, including parts of the oblast that it did not control at the time and small occupied areas of neighboring Mykolaiv Oblast.[e][6][7] The United Nations condemned the annexations as violating international law.
In October 2022, as Ukraine's 2022 Kherson counteroffensive approached the city of Kherson itself, the Russian administration's executive bodies evacuated from Kherson to the left bank of the Dnieper River.[8] They set up a new administrative centre in Henichesk, in the far south of the Kherson region.[9] Throughout early November 2022, Russian forces fully withdrew from all the areas of Kherson and Mykolaiv regions on the right bank of the Dnieper, including the city of Kherson proper.[10][11] Ukrainian forces entered the city of Kherson on 11 November. According to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, the Kherson region remained a "subject of the Russian Federation" despite the withdrawal.
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- ^ "Russian-Occupied Kherson Names New Leadership Amid Pro-Ukraine Protests, Rocket Attacks – the Moscow Times". 28 April 2022. Archived from the original on 7 May 2022.
- ^ "Биография Владимира Сальдо". ТАСС. Retrieved 17 June 2023.
- ^ Lukov, Yaroslav (30 August 2022). "Kherson: 'Heavy fighting' as Ukraine seeks to retake Russian-held region". BBC News. Retrieved 30 August 2022.
- ^ Ogawa, Tomoyo (24 May 2022). "'Time running out' to save Kherson from becoming Russian". Nikkei Asia. Retrieved 11 July 2023.
- ^ "Ukraine's occupied Zaporizhzhia eyes Russia 'referendum' in autumn". Firstpost. 16 July 2022. Retrieved 14 July 2022.
- ^ "Ukraine war latest: Putin declares four areas of Ukraine as Russian". 30 September 2022.
- ^ "Russian-held parts of Ukraine's Mykolaiv region to be incorporated in Russian-held Kherson". Reuters. 21 September 2022. Archived from the original on 24 September 2022. Retrieved 21 September 2022.
- ^ Voropaeva, Evgenia (19 October 2022). "Власти Херсона переедут на левый берег Днепра". РБК (in Russian). Retrieved 19 October 2022.
- ^ Filipyonok, Artem (9 November 2022). "Погиб замглавы Херсонской области Кирилл Стремоусов". РБК (in Russian). Retrieved 9 November 2022.
- ^ Taylor, Harry; Belam, Martin; Lock, Samantha (10 November 2022). "Russia-Ukraine war live: Kyiv sceptical of Moscow's retreat from Kherson; US general estimates 100,000 Russian military casualties". the Guardian. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
- ^ "Ukraine liberates all of Mykolaiv Oblast, Zelenskyy admin considers slashing ministries". 11 November 2022.