There've been videos of Russian columns and even larger units such as that entire BTG trying to cross the Siverodonetsk river getting eviscerated since the start of the war... these losses are seemingly irrelevant to the Kremlin's strategy so long as they get a majority of their men out.
The big question with Kherson is 'Have they pulled off another Izium / Lyman with most of the men escaping with some of their equipment and the vids are from the luckless fodder who were abandoned to 'cover the retreat'... OR is the large part of the entire Kherson Front about to (if not already) get annihilated on the west bank of the Dnipro.
It's a very important question since if 'only' 2-5k are left like zerglings on the west bank, then that means there are plenty of men left to man the artillery positions on the east bank and/or be redeployed to where they might do some good like assaulting the Ukrainian trenches in front of Donetsk or trying to take the lychpin city of the whole eastern front, Bakhmut, or staying warm with constant counterattacks into the vital open fields, small settlements and dirt roads of northern Luhansk or, hell, the Ukrainians would never expect another attack into Vuhledar... and that's why it might work!
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