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Governor: Russian forces have kidnapped 309 people in Kherson Oblast since Feb. 24

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According to Yaroslav Yanushevych, 185 of them still remain in Russian captivity. Most of the southern Kherson Oblast was occupied in the early days of Russia's all-out war. Ukraine has been liberating settlements in the oblast since the beginning of its large-scale counteroffensive in the south on Aug. 29.

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The Kyiv Independent staff documented what it feels like to live and sleep in Kyiv, Ukraine, as Russia intensifies its drone and missile attacks on the city. Filmed over several weeks in June and July, our journalists take shelter in bathrooms, basements, and parking garages as explosions ring out overhead.

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