EXCLUSIVE: BAFTA-nominated producer Maxine Gordon (The Hip Hop Years) and Joseph Bushell have launched an indie with a slate of projects including Invisible Front: Kherson about the war in Ukraine. Marauder Pictures will make docs and narrative features and has brought in Mark Waugh,

One-year-old Dmytryk was killed in an alleged game of ‘human safari’ by Russian drone pilots in the Kherson region. The boy, just 14 months old, had been playing in the yard of his home when the UAV crashed, piercing his heart with shrapnel on July 9.

Susan Britton, lead producer of Forum’s 10 a.m. hour, traveled from San Francisco to Ukraine to report on how locals find moments of peace and connection by playing Riichi mahjong, a Japanese tile game that fosters community even amid the trauma of war.

Ukraine’s farmers, especially those near the front lines, are caught between the demands of the armed forces and Russian attacks. But despite the challenges he faces, Dmytro Maksymov, who farms 1,500 hectares in Kherson province, says dealing with them “is better than occupation”.

Ukraine's security agency says it has killed Russian agents suspected of assassinating a senior officer in Kyiv.

Farmers in Ukraine’s Kherson region have harvested the first 500 tons of watermelons. In addition, more than 46,000 tons of grain and leguminous crops, nearly 5,000 tons of rapeseed, and about 2,000 tons of vegetables have already been collected.

The city of Kherson, controlled by the Kiev regime, is currently a frontline settlement, where the Ukrainian military is stationed everywhere.

Putin's army is reportedly just one to two kilometres from Kupyansk, which was liberated in September 2022 by Ukrainian forces during their counteroffensive.