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Kherson

[ ker-sawn, ker-sawn; Russian khyir-sawn ]

noun

  1. a port in southern Ukraine, on the Dnieper River, on the Black Sea.


Kherson

/ xɪrˈsɔn /

noun

  1. a port in S Ukraine on the Dnieper River near the Black Sea: shipyards. Pop: 320 000 (2005 est)


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Today we are making this choice, the citizens of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, the residents of Zaporozhye and Kherson regions have made this choice.

Putin’s army holds Kherson, whatever is left of Mariupol, all the intervening territory, and now not only Luhansk and Donetsk but the entire Donbas Oblast.

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Their first move will likely be a quick drive through Zaporizhia and Kherson toward… Crimea.

The ceremony was performed at Kherson; soon after the bride arrived and the marriage took place in the same city.

When he returned to Kief, he carried with him the priests and sacred ornaments taken from the churches of Kherson.

Even the girls were given books in Odessa and Kherson, as the rock to build their lives on, and not as an ornament for idleness.

The two imperial suites were soon united, and they swept on, a glittering cavalcade, to Kherson.

Straightway they proceeded to his estate at Kherson, and M. de Hell set to work on the necessary plans.

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