Comments by "Kevin Street" (@Kevin_Street) on "Ukraine's river crossing can change the war" video.

Seems like a Ukrainian bridgehead on the Dnipro is almost inevitable, and the Russians are debating if they should keep defending the bank and suffering losses, or skip ahead to the next step by abandoning the bank for higher ground and building a more defensible position. If they accept that they can't keep the Ukrainians out then they can attempt to set the conditions for what comes next and suffer fewer losses getting to that point. But that kind of pragmatism isn't acceptable at the highest levels of the Russian government. For proof of this, just look at how long they held on to Kherson while suffering massive casualties and front line collapses in the east. If they had stayed in Kherson they would have probably lost the war, and that's the only reason Putin grudgingly allowed a retreat. I don't think he'll allow it here.
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