Russia and Ukraine

[Thumpalumpacus]

Still, it's the right play (and that should be concerning).  Move your forces behind a natural barrier and blast the shit out of anything that breaths on the other side at long range.   Neither ukraine nor russia -needs- to hold kherson, the city itself.  It's much more usefel to either party as a cauldron.

Right, but they need to be unassing faster if they don't want their sides crumpled.

The advantage to Ukrainians of recapturing Kherson provides is that it gives Odessa a little more breathing room from missile attacks. This is Russia seeing that strangling Ukraine's economy might be harder than they thought.