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Kherson
capital city of Kherson Oblast in southern Ukraine / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kherson (Ukrainian: Херсо́н) is a city in southern Ukraine. It is the administrative centre of Kherson Oblast. In 2020, 286,958 people lived there.
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The city is an important port on the Black Sea and on the Dnieper River.
The city was a site of heavy fighting in the first days of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[1] The city was reported to be under Russian control as of 2 March 2022.[2][3]