By 'Kherson' I meant primarily the region on the East of the river which is vitally important to the reliable supply of water to Crimea.  When I wrote that I was not thinking about the possibility of blowing up the dam, and especially not the nuclear power plant.  It took some time to fully appreciate how irresponsible, desperate, and depraved the Zelenskj puppet-masters truly are.

In all honesty, I thought the Russians could and would eventually control the entire lake and the areas at some distance around it.  At least that was my assessment from some months in until a month or two ago.  Of course they still might.  If you look back to the beginning of this thing, after I'd had a week or two to study the situation, I stated clearly that Russia would leave Kiev once the purpose of being there (tieing up the adversary) was over, and I also stated that I doubted the Russians would go to Odessa.  My assessment at that early time was that Russia would not want a panic response from the rest of the world which would result from land-locking the county.  I considered (and still consider) the Russian leadership to be reasonable and wished initially to just take care of their immediate problems (as stated in earlier agreements which proved to be a Western sham) as expediently and cheaply as possible and to avoid a larger war.  But I also expected Russia to be prepared for a larger war if it came to that.  In this case Odessa will probably become part of the Russian Federation along with the others via a combination of economic engineering and military actions.  Kherson is actually the weakest of the bunch (from Kharkiv down to Odessa) in terms of popular support for Russia from what I can see.

I maintain that Russia (or any other thinking power in this day and age) will avoid at all costs attempting to take over and try to control an area which lacks popular support.  Russia seems to be to civilized to flat out genocide an area to arrange popular support.  The opposite seems to hold true for the NaZiocons wherever they may be found, and I suspect that there is a religious component to it.  Some religious dogma is abhorred by genocide while in other cases it is considered as natural as a tree and something to strive for and have holidays in celebration of.