Mini-update...
Kherson Bridge head - Ukrainian Army has punched two holes in the western side of the bridge head. In one of those locations they overran a DNR conscript militia unit (brigade or BTG, numbers unknown) which disintegrated leaving a Russian Airborne BTG exposed on its flank. Ukrainians then rolled up the Russian airborne BTG and removed it too from the map.
Up until the last bridge went down for good last week the Russians continued to pour fresh units into the bridge head area...
Best guess is that there are 25+ Russian BTG's and other divisional elements semi trapped in the bridge head area. Still (barely) supported logistically by barges below the dam bridge. Russians in the northern part of the bridge head are slowly retreating south, attempting to avoid being cut off from the barge landings and under heavy Ukrainian pressure from both north and west...
Russia stripped units from the Donbas front to reinforce the Kherson bridgehead. Leaving much of the Donbas front held by DNR conscripts backed Wagner and Chechen elements. In an attempt to keep that front active despite the thinned out lines the Russians used the conscripts up in human wave attacks with Wagner/Chechens manning checkpoints behind the conscripts to keep them from retreating...
Ukrainians now making small slow advances in this area...
