emergency, jim. no question we have seen so many close calls in that category, phil, the mayor of kearsen i kherson in the south, the city has completely fallen under russian control. how significant a change is that? reporter: so kherson has been under russian occupation from the early days of the war, but even during that time we re told the city council was allowed to operate, this is the civilian authorities, were allowed to operate in a limited way. it seems no longer. the mayor says that armed guards turned up russian troops showed up at the city hall building, took the keys, exchanged their guns for russian ones and they believe that that era of being able to continue some sort of local civilian administration is now over. now, there has been talk from the ukrainian government, president zelenskyy specifically, about plans by the occupying forces there to stage some sort of some sort of public vote to try and declare