Yesterday basically started disintegration of the country with a miserable loss of Kherson (officially in constitution - it is NoW Russia).
It was not a loss. The Russians have been devastating the Ukrainian forces in Kherson. The problem is the difficulty in supplying the area. It makes no sense for Russia to compromise their forces in Kherson when they could be used more effectively in other areas, where they are more safe and can be resupplied more easily.
Also, the Ukrainians continue their attacks on the Kahkovka dam, and if they are successful, Kherson will be flooded. The Russians stayed in the area and provided a full evacuation to all civilians who chose to leave, and while doing so, they removed various culturally important artefacts, knowing that it was going to be strategically necessary to withdraw from the area and the Nazis would destroy these artefacts.
They’ve been doing this for weeks. General Surovikin in his first address to the media 3 weeks ago stated quite clearly that if he deemed it necessary, then ‘tough decisions’ would have to be made regarding Kherson. This was obviously a public relations move in order for him to soften the blow for the Russian people when they inevitably withdrew. Surovikin doesn’t mess around. He’s not a crazy warmonger out to achieve daring military victories in bloody battles for the glory of it. He wants to demilitarise Ukraine with as few civilian and Russian forces casualties as possible.
The Ukrainians will retake the area and become an easy target for Russian long-range shelling, once again sacrificing their troops, in the only way they know. At the same time, Russian forces in other, safer areas will be strengthened even more.
That you are able to swallow the interpretation of this situation as a “miserable loss” is saddening. I understand that there is propaganda both from the west/Ukraine, and also from dissatisfied people in Russia who write blogs and post on telegram, but to be a member of this forum and not be interested in Working on yourself to see how your emotions are manipulated so that you have become basically an Agent Smith of the matrix who downloaded a programme - a puppet - seems like a waste of an opportunity, to me.