Ukraine starts a push to recapture Kherson, a crucial Russian-occupied city

Ukraine’s army suffered one of the greatest reverses in the country’s independent history. Ukrainian soldiers found themselves besieged by Russian-backed forces in Ilovaisk, a town in eastern Donetsk province. As they tried to escape, at least 366 of them were killed in what many Ukrainians describe as a massacre. The historical resonance of that episode will certainly not have been lost on the Ukrainian generals who unleashed a in southern Kherson province on August 29th, eight years later to the day.