Russia claims that its army has taken control of the entire Kherson region in the south of Ukraine, and is "establishing peaceful life" for the population there.
Parts of the Kharkiv, Zaporozhye, Nikolaev regions of Ukraine, a significant part of the LPR and the DPR, were all taken, Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev, head of the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation, said on Tuesday.
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