Protesters run from tear gas during anti-Russian demo in Kherson, Ukraine

MOMENT protesters run from tear gas during anti-Russian demonstration in Kherson, Ukraine.

Plumes of smoke rose from the square, as tear gas canisters exploded.

Protestors waved Ukraine's national flag, while chanting "Kherson is Ukraine", eyewitness video showed.

Russia's defence ministry on Tuesday (April 26) said its forces had liberated the entire Kherson region in the south of Ukraine, Interfax news agency said.

It cited a senior official as saying elsewhere in the south of Ukraine, Russian troops had taken parts of the Zaporizhzhia and Mykolaiv regions, as well as part of the Kharkiv region to the east of Kyiv.

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