Volodymyr Saldo, who was appointed by the occupation authorities as the "head" of the Kherson region, does not get in touch, his deputy Kateryna Gubareva was charged with treason by the Russian special services, and another deputy Kyrylo Stremousov, according to the official version, died in a road accident.

All this may indicate that Putin decided to appoint local Gauleiters as the culprits of the defeat in Kherson. 

Political consultant Dmytro Vasiliev expressed this opinion in an exclusive interview with TSN.ua.

According to him, Putin does not care which of the collaborators will be a puppet of the occupation regime in the captured part of the Kherson region.

It is now important for him to justify his defeat in Kherson, and for this he is ready to name the culprits among the local Gauleiters.

"For him [Putin], Kherson is one of the most serious reputational failures that hit his leverage in the Kremlin and among the Russian population.

It is very important for him that it is not he who is to blame for this situation, but the military who did not cope with the task, or the Gauleiter who either got drunk or something happened to them," the expert explained.

Dmytro Vasiliev believes that this is why deputy Saldo became a "Ukrainian spy" who allegedly surrendered all the positions and plans of the Russian army.

Now, nothing prevents Putin from asserting that the Russians were forced to leave Kherson because there are such "traitors" who worked for the Ukrainian special services. 

"This is the reason why they will look for such culprits and hang all the dogs on them.

And who will be there next — Putin is not interested," the political scientist summarized.       

It will be recalled that the wife of militant Pavel Gubarev Kateryna was found in Russia, who held the position of the so-called "deputy head of the occupied Kherson region" in occupied Kherson.

She was arrested on the territory of the Russian Federation.

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