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Ukraine Special Operations Forces soldiers navigate the Dnipro River using night vision goggles, or NVG, during a night mission in Kherson region, Ukraine, Saturday, June 10, 2023. Ukrainian special forces officers spent six months on their mission to establish a bridgehead across the Dnipro River in southern Ukraine after an explosion destroyed the Kakhovka Dam upstream. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

How Ukrainian special forces secured a critical Dnipro River crossing in southern Ukraine

By Mstyslav Chernov - Associated Press

Ukrainian soldiers practice on a tank during military training, in Ukraine, Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023. A gloomy mood hangs over Ukraine’s soldiers nearly two years after Russia invaded their country. Ukrainian soldiers remain fiercely determined to win, despite a disappointing counteroffensive this summer and signs of wavering financial support from allies. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)

A gloomy mood hangs over Ukraine’s soldiers as war with Russia grinds on

By Samya Kullab - Associated Press

Ukrainian marines sail along the Dnipro river at the frontline near Kherson, Ukraine, Saturday, Oct. 14, 2023. A top Ukrainian official said on Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2023, its troops have established a beachhead on the eastern bank of the Dnieper River near Kherson, an important advance in bridging one of Russia's most significant strategic barriers in the war. (AP Photo/Alex Babenko) **FILE*

Ukrainian marines claim multiple bridgeheads across a key Russian strategic barrier

By Illia Novikov - Associated Press

Svitlana Sushko, 62, sobs while visiting the grave of her youngest son, a Ukrainian soldier who was killed last year in the war against Russia, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, Aug. 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Russian shelling hits a landmark church in the Ukrainian city of Kherson

By Hanna Arhirova - Associated Press

Houses are seen underwater in the flooded village near Kherson, Ukraine, Saturday, June 10, 2023. The destruction of the Kakhovka Dam in southern Ukraine is swiftly evolving into long-term environmental catastrophe. It affects drinking water, food supplies and ecosystems reaching into the Black Sea. (AP Photo)

Ukraine’s dam collapse is both a fast-moving disaster and a slow-moving ecological catastrophe

By Lori Hinnant and Sam McNeil and Illia Novikov - Associated Press

A view of a flooded neighborhood in Kherson, Ukraine, Thursday, June 8, 2023. Floodwaters from a collapsed dam kept rising in southern Ukraine on Thursday, forcing hundreds of people to flee their homes in a major emergency operation that brought a dramatic new dimension to the war with Russia, now in its 16th month. (AP Photo/Libkos)

A dam collapses and thousands face the deluge — often with no help — in Russian-occupied Ukraine

By Illia Novikov, Yuras Karmanau and Hanna Arhirova - Associated Press

This satellite image provided by Maxar Technologies shows the flooded village of Korsunka, southern Ukraine on Tuesday, June 6, 2023. (Maxar Technologies via AP)

Ukraine rushes drinking water to flooded areas as officials wrestle with impact of major dam breach

By Vasilisa Stepanenko - Associated Press

Streets are flooded in Kherson, Ukraine, Tuesday, Jun 6, 2023 after the Kakhovka dam was blown up overnight. The wall of a major dam in a part of southern Ukraine has collapsed, triggering floods, endangering Europe's largest nuclear power plant and threatening drinking water supplies. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Ukraine and Russia trade blame for massive dam collapse

By Guy Taylor and Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

In this photo taken from video released by Russian TV Pool on Tuesday, April 18, 2023, Russian President Vladimir Putin arrives at an undisclosed location. The Kremlin says Putin has visited headquarters of the Russian troops fighting in Ukraine. (Pool Photo via AP)

Putin rallies his troops with 2nd Ukraine visit in 2 months

By Adam Pemble - Associated Press

Hospital staff take care of orphaned children at the children's regional hospital maternity ward in Kherson, southern Ukraine, Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2022. Throughout the war in Ukraine, Russian authorities have been accused of deporting Ukrainian children to Russia or Russian-held territories to raise them as their own. At least 1,000 children were seized from schools and orphanages in the Kherson region during Russia’s eight-month occupation of the area, their whereabouts still unknown. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Ukrainians hid orphaned children from Russian deportation

By Sam Mednick - Associated Press

Relatives of Elizaveta, 94, transport her by a cargo cart to the evacuation train in Kherson, Ukraine, Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Russian shelling cuts off power again in liberated Kherson

By Inna Varenytsia - Associated Press

In this Nov. 23, 2022 photo, Igor shows the remains of marks on his back after allegedly being tortured by Russian forces in Kherson. The 22-year-old, accused of providing Ukrainians with Russia's military positions, was stung with a taser along his back for two and half hours and then forced to stay awake, seated in a chair all night. He was freed after two days but not before writing a letter providing details about a relative of his uncle's who the Russians wanted information on. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Torture allegations mount in aftermath of Kherson occupation

By Sam Mednick - Associated Press

This photo mad available by Ukrainian doctor Oleh Duda shows the moment when lights at a hospital went out as he was performing complicated, dangerous surgery on a bleeding patient at the hospital in western city of Lviv, Ukraine, Tuesday, Nov. 15, 2022. Russia's devastating strikes on Ukraine's power grid have strained and disrupted the country’s health care system, already battered by years of corruption, mismanagement, the COVID-19 pandemic and nine months of war. (Oleh Duda via AP)

Surgeons work by flashlight as Ukraine power grid battered

By Yuras Karmanau, Sam Mednick and Dasha Litvinova - Associated Press

General view of the damaged Antonivsky Bridge in Kherson, Ukraine, Sunday, Nov. 27, 2022. The bridge, the main crossing point over the Dnipro river in Kherson, was destroyed by Russian troops in earlier November, after Kremlin's forces withdrew from the southern city. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Pockets of shelling across Ukraine as wintry warfare looms

By Sam Mednick and Jamey Keaten - Associated Press

Lilia Kristenko, 38, cries as city responders collect the dead body of her mother Natalia Kristenko in Kherson, southern Ukraine, Friday, Nov. 25, 2022. Natalia Kristenko's dead body lay covered in a blanket in the doorway of her apartment building for hours overnight. The 62-year-old woman had walked outside her home with her husband Thursday evening after drinking tea when the building was struck. Kristenko was killed instantly from a wound to the head. Her husband died hours later in the hospital from internal bleeding. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Civilians escape Kherson after Russian strikes on freed city

By Sam Mednick and Jamey Keaten - Associated Press