No joke, Ukrainian troops stole a border pole and smuggled it back in-country for a photo op. There’s video on Twitter of them running for their lives carrying this border pole they yanked out of the ground.
This was undefended area north ans east of Kharkiv. Elensky is not capable of moving artillery to this ground to threaten the railhead for the Izium front. The DPR is lying still as the last few days of diesel and gasoline is used. Then Severodonetsk will fall. This will be like a bankruptcy - it happens slowly and then all at once. Kerson has already capitulated without bloodshed. Once it is known the CIA funded AZOVs and National Front guys are not running around, Zapporizia (With its Cineses funded industries), Mikolaiev and Odessa will follow. I am not so sure about Kharkiv, as the Holomodor had a huge impact there, with anti Russian hatred running high.