Russia has held a grip on the southern Ukrainian region of Kherson and its capital of the same name since the earliest days of the war. Kherson is also one of the four regions.
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Russia has held a grip on the southern Ukrainian region of Kherson and its capital of the same name since the earliest days of the war. Kherson is also one of the four regions that were illegally annexed by Russia earlier this month. But Ukrainian forces have been pushing hard to take back that land, and Russia claims that hard push is what led to its own forces stealing the bones of a national icon. That icon, per the Independent, is Prince Grigory Potemkin, the 18th-century Russian general who founded the city and whose remains had been interred in Kherson’s St.
