Russia is giving IDs and clearing people of debt. Version that this will be some kind of semi-independent region now doesn't hold up because of IDs, also Russia seems to really going to win this one also because of going through the process of giving IDs.
I don't believe this was the plan, but since the "first phase" failed, Russia has no other option other than annexing as much of Ukraine as possible.
I don't know if you can read Russian. Well, you can use automatic translation and in case anyone says Russian sources are biased, I'll give you linked to anti-Russian sources https://www.svoboda.org/a/v-hersone-i-zaporozhskoy-oblasti-nachali-vydavatj-pasporta-rossii/31893653.html
Didn't find anti-Russian source for debt clearing. Makes sense to me since if people know about this, they won't fight defending own shackles. https://ria.ru/20220611/ekonomika-1794738099.html