@Garban Thought I'd reach out to you on this one as on this site you appear to be the expert on the Ukrainian stuff. Recently on another site was arguing with a few Putinphiles over this incident- [euronews.com]
so my question is have you heard anything else on that, any other evidence that would indeed indicate that the Russians murdered Kerpatenko? I know damn well it wasn't the Ukrainians who murdered him as some folks would have me believe, and if they didn't there's pretty much only one other choice.

On another site came across some screwball complaining about the Ukrainians sabotaging the Kerch bridge, as a 70th birthday "gift" to Putin. I laughed in his face, and cheered on the Ukrainians.

Ukraine is taking back land largely because Vlad is packing up and going home after declaring a victory in recovering Russian land. Once he does that he'll demand an end to sanctions and declare Ukraine the aggressors in any further attempts to fight. It will become an argument over where the border is and Vlad might blow up Kiev with a tactical nuke or two if they don't stop the aggression. That's my guess.