Advances made in Kherson is one of the four regions annexed by Moscow last week via referendum A Ukrainian serviceman of Sophia battalion distributes humanitarian aid to a local woman in the recently liberated town of Izium, Ukraine, Sunday, Oct. 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka) Ukrainian forces have broken through Moscow’s defenses in the strategic southern Kherson region, the Russian military acknowledged Monday, an achievement that delivers a sharp blow to one of the four areas in Ukraine that Russian President Vladimir Putin annexed last week. Russia’s Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said in his daily briefing that “with superior...