I was in Kherson in Soviet times.
It is not the biggest city in Ukraine. But the crushing victory of the Ukrainian armed forces in Kherson has the following four dimensions that make its success the most important since the beginning of the war, and this defeat of rashism is undoubtedly the most resounding slap in the face of the Kremlin's villain image.

The war of rashism against Ukraine is entering a new, winter phase.
There are at least four features of this new phase, or at least perceptions about it, that can be noted.

First, the successes of the Ukrainian armed forces are becoming so obvious and so frequent that even the most exalted supporters of Ukraine begin to disbelieve their eyes or dare not believe this winning move. They, even they also become skeptical, fearing that the constant retreat from the until recently symbolic positions of the rashist hordes is the result of some very vilely considered out and very insidiously thought out Kremlin strategy aimed at dragging the enemy into a trap or into a sack, and then begin to exterminate him.

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My friend from Kharkiv:
- Having suffered defeat after defeat from our soldiers, the Russian aggressors are now at war with our civilians. They want to break us. Do you know what it's like to be without electricity, without light, without heating, without drinking water on November 1, 2022!? And to keep my 93-year-old mother alive, all this is damn necessary! Today I saw tears running down her old wrinkled face. And she once told me that she cried all her tears during the Great War, when her two brothers, sister and father did not return from the front. Even when dad was gone, she did not shed a tear, although she loved him very much. I asked her: Mom, why are you crying? And she: Because I will no longer be alive when Ukraine wins this war, and then I will not be able to rejoice for the last time ...

In fact, the only thing left for the Kremlin aggressor after the wooden Iranian drones - like a grotesque memorial service for the great Russian military-industrial complex – it is his nuclear blackmail.
Naturally, no one knows what is in the head of this geostrategic maniac and geopolitical cyclophrenic. But it's a fact - his nuclear blackmail works. And this portends nightmarishly difficult days for Ukraine, Europe, the West and the world as a whole.

I keep in constant contact with friends from Russia. It strikes me that there are two themes in their (independent) narratives.

First, they are writing about the fact that the resettlement of entire families and a wide circle of relatives has arisen and is becoming more frequent - from settlements near the war zones inland. People decide literally from today to today and leave without telling their neighbors and friends. They load their cars with huge luggage and just leave.
Their hearts are healed, their souls are aching. They are afraid that they will not break through the cordons of soldiers and policemen with machine guns and masks on their faces. They fear that their homes will be ransacked as soon as it becomes clear that they have left them.