Russian forces <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kherson" id="mwAaY" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Battle of Kherson">capture the city of Kherson</a> during the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine" id="mwAac" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Russian invasion of Ukraine">Russian invasion of Ukraine</a>, which subsequently began the start of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_occupation_of_Kherson_Oblast" id="mwAag" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Russian occupation of Kherson Oblast">Russian occupation and military-civilian administration</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kherson" id="mwAak" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Kherson">Kherson</a>.<sup about="#mwt168" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-32"}}' id="cite_ref-32" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./March_2#cite_note-32" id="mwAao" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 32;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAas">[32]</span></a></sup> Kherson is the only regional capital in Ukraine that Russia captured.
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-32"><cite about="#mwt165" class="citation news cs1" id="CITEREFSchwirtzPérez-Peña2022">Schwirtz, Michael; Pérez-Peña, Richard (2022-03-02). <a class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/02/world/europe/kherson-ukraine-russia.html" id="mwCAo" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"First Ukraine City Falls as Russia Strikes More Civilian Targets"</a>. <i id="mwCAs"><a href="./The_New_York_Times" id="mwCAw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISSN_(identifier)" id="mwCA0" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a><span id="mwCA4" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/issn/0362-4331" id="mwCA8" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">0362-4331</a>. <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220303000108/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/02/world/europe/kherson-ukraine-russia.html" id="mwCBA" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">Archived</a> from the original on 3 March 2022<span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwCBE">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwCBI">2022-03-03</span></span>.</cite><span about="#mwt165" class="Z3988" id="mwCBM" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=The+New+York+Times&amp;rft.atitle=First+Ukraine+City+Falls+as+Russia+Strikes+More+Civilian+Targets&amp;rft.date=2022-03-02&amp;rft.issn=0362-4331&amp;rft.aulast=Schwirtz&amp;rft.aufirst=Michael&amp;rft.au=P%C3%A9rez-Pe%C3%B1a%2C+Richard&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2022%2F03%2F02%2Fworld%2Feurope%2Fkherson-ukraine-russia.html&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMarch+2"></span></span>