Western reporting has the #Kherson region more or less like this, w blue areas having been retaken by #Ukraine. Most reporting has been falsely indicating #Russia was losing control of #Kherson itself. The red line corresponds more closely to the front thermal imagining tells us. 
What is clear is also the lack of intensity in the fighting which means Russia withdrew and repositioned rather than being pushed back by Ukrainian counter offensives. Russia faces the formidable #VitaliyKim, who is more of what #Zelensky is pretending to be during this conflict.
Despite this charismatic opponent, It is in the Kherson region where Russia can still score its greatest feats. The drier flat terrain is made for armored drives. It had seemed that Russia chose to withdraw east of the river in Kherson oblast, but this may be false reporting.
If they continue to hold #Snigurivka, then this signals that when reinforced from forces released with the capture of #Mariupol & large withdrawals in the #Kiev area, Russia might yet strike out from the Kherson region for larger gains and potential link ups and/or encirclements.
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