[TigerLikesRoosterNew]

I am a kind of confused now. Reports said, including this article, that there were tens of thousands of Russian troops on the northern Kherson region. Then Ukrainian troops moved in, and no report of battles with these remaining troops. Nor the news of mass surrender. One possible explanation is that there were not many left when Ukrainians started a full offensive. That is, a majority of them had already escaped to the other side of river.

[familyop]

"One possible explanation is that there were not many left when Ukrainians started a full offensive. That is, a majority of them had already escaped to the other side of river."

Yes. I'm guessing that's what happened. The past few weeks, though, there have been quite a few fights in the same region to the north and east of Kherson. The Ukrainians killed them out village by village before going into Kherson. Last word that I saw about the city proper, was that only special units were sent into kherson. ...units more trained for urban warfare, I reckon.

[familyop]

Many difficult battles have been fought in the Kherson region to the east of the city of Kherson. These maps are the quickest way of getting a rough overview of what’s happened during the past few weeks.

There was quite a gap in reporting fights closest to Kherson in the most recent days, though, for the sake of tactical information discipline for the Ukrainian army, but this animated map is probably the best representation of what happening during the past few days.

“A timelapse of the rapid Ukrainian advance to liberate Kherson city and secure the areas of Kherson Oblast north of the Dnipro river.”
https://twitter.com/War_Mapper/status/1591220371994607616?s=20&t=jNIzqLmtw7STWUdBnoyHsQ

[NorseViking]

The contingent of about 20k moved out over a few days without opposition. The “offensive” was ongoing with huge losses on the Ukrainian side since September to no effect.
I actually have no idea why it took place, maybe the Ukrainian threat to blow the dam was taken seriously, or some secret deal.