Russian-imposed local governments emerge in Kherson region...
Poster Comment:
Kherson is where the Dneiper river flows into the Black Sea. Russia is taking the area on the Black Sea. They might even take Odessa which is the only majority Ukrainian city in the region. Putin has 100,000 Ukrainian soldiers bottled up in Kiev. By pulling away from the cities, his men can go about cleaning out all of the small units roaming the countryside. He has a May 10th goal to get the war essentially over. And he needs to get the farmers into the fields for their May planting date.