Only place some last stand is going on would be Kherson where actually Russia is focusing their best forces. Luhansk or Donetsk Russia doesn’t care about them. They’re already press ganged all the adult males anyway. They’ve denied permission for people from there to enter Russia. Estimates are that Russia has what 52k soldier deaths but estimates for both of those republics might be like 70k since they’ve been sent into war fairly I’ll equipped, basically cannon fodder to chew up Ukraine ammunition. And these are pretty small republics that have been in war situations for ten or more years.
To go back to Kherson it wouldn’t happen because Ukraine wouldn’t siege their own people. They’ll probably just encircle it and run the defenders out of ammunition and wait for them to surrender.
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