Elon Musk has reportedly weighed in suggesting Ukraine should come to terms with Russia including neutrality and returning Crimea. Twitter folks have observed that it's not clear whether the bit he empathises with Russia over is having a lot of very expensive vehicles embarrassingly break down when they weren't meant to, or having a recent major takeover bid fail very dramatically.
More seriously: reports are that a Ukrainian armour column has broken through Russian lines northeast of Kherson, so recapturing land there is still happening, though the Russians do seem to be putting up some resistance, we're not getting the speed of the Kharkiv rout at this point (possibly Russia has better troops in place in the south). The aforementioned strongman, Kadyrov, has apparently committed to send several of his children, including ones under any reasonable age for combat, to the front lines. It isn't really clear what the logic here is.