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We spoke to the former Ukrainian defence minister Andriy Zagorodnyuk, about the jubilant scenes in Kherson and how Ukrainians feel watching them.

Joyous residents welcomed Ukrainian troops in the centre of Kherson today after Russia abandoned the only regional capital it had captured since its invasion earlier this year. 

We’re joined from Kyiv by Alina Frolova, who was Ukraine’s Deputy Defence Minister between 2019-2020. And from Tallinn, Kadri Liik, a senior fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations.

Could this be a turning point in the war in Ukraine?

Could this be a turning point in the war in Ukraine? 

Russia has announced its imminent withdrawal from the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson, the only regional capital it has captured since February’s full-scale invasion, and which it illegally annexed just weeks ago.  

As winter sets in, the war in Ukraine looks set for a new, bloody phase around Kherson.

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Yesterday President Putin declared the Donetsk region of Ukraine was now part of Russia. 

Vladimir Putin has ordered Russia’s first military mobilisation since World War Two. He also warned he would use “all means [he has]” to defend Russian territory, raising concerns around the world and saying it wasn’t a bluff.

Our Foreign affairs Correspondent Paraic O’Brien has been looking at the build-up to his speech in Russia and the occupied territories where referendums are due to be held.

We spoke to Nigel Povoas, a British prosecutor who is part of an international team investigating alleged war crimes in Ukraine, and the Ukrainian MP, Mariia Mezentseva, , who represents Kharkiv city centre in parliament. 

The authorities in Ukraine have begun the painstaking process of exhuming hundreds of bodies whose graves were discovered in a forest near Izyum. 

Ukraine says its armed forces have launched a series of counter attacks to try to take back control of parts of the country seized by the Russians.