ROFLMFAO you Putin troll. Seriously, get fucked, this is orders of magnitude beyond your normal levels of delusional. Russia has been beating its head against Bakhmut since August of last year, and those heavy casualties have been falling heavily disproportionately on the Russian side. There is already a secondary defensive line at Bakhmut, it’s been there since the Ukrainians blew the H-32 bridge, the only bridge crossing the river bisecting the city back in August. In five months of futile fighting, the Russians still haven’t penetrated into the part of the city that’s on the eastern side of that river, much less come anywhere near close to reaching the river in the middle of the city, which, just to remind you, is missing the only bridge crossing it. They’re still on the eastern outskirts of the city.
If you got your news from any sources other than Russian state propaganda, you’d long have known that the Russian obsession with bleeding themselves dry making futile efforts to break into Bakhmut for the past five months doesn’t make any strategic sense whatsoever. It is not a strategically important city. Its only value is that Russia seems determined to capture it to prove it is still capable of offensive action and has been failing at accomplishing this for five months running. Speculation has been that the Wagner group has been trying to prove its importance at Bakhmut since they have been providing the majority of the bodies being fed into the meatgrinder, and there have been open spats going on between the Wagner group, Putin’s Chechen TikTok general Kadyrov and the actual Russian military over social media for a long time.
Not that it’ll stick in your memory, but for the sake of others here, Battle of Bakhmut - Strategic Value - Wikipedia:
Strategic value
The overall strategic value of Bakhmut has been considered dubious by many analysts, observing that the resources and lives Russia has spent assaulting the city far outweigh its importance.[111] The UK defence ministry and U.S. National Security Council have both insisted capturing Bakhmut would only be a “symbolic” victory for Russia rather than a strategic one.[112][113] Some observers noted that Bakhmut is a key regional logistics and transport hub where two roads, the T0504 to Kostiantynivka and T0513 to Siversk, pass through.[56][114] Jon Roozenbeek, British Academy postdoctoral fellow at the University of Cambridge, observed that securing Bakhmut would put Kramatorsk and Sloviansk within sufficient Russian artillery range.[115] Konrad Muzyka, and expert on Russian security Mark Galeotti, argued that Russia’s costly assault is a matter of both preserving prestige and sunk cost fallacy—that Russian forces had already expended so much manpower in the war effort on other fronts that it “may as well do everything they can” to seize the city.[111]
Retired Ukrainian colonel Serhiy Hrabskyi suggested Wagner Group was seeking glory in capturing Bakhmut, as leader Yevgeny Prigozhin is poised to reap significant monetary and political rewards if Wagner captures the city on behalf of the Russian government.[14] Prighozhin himself had previously suggested Wagner was deliberately turning Bakhmut into a “meat grinder” to inflict heavy attritional casualties on Ukrainian forces.[116] On 7 January 2023, Prighozin gave a somewhat different explanation, emphasising the apparent defensive value the network of ‘underground cities’ in the mines of Soledar and Bakhmut would have for sheltering Russian soldiers and vehicles from Ukrainian airstrikes.[1] In January 2023, an unidentified U.S. official claimed Wagner was seeking to commercially exploit the salt and gypsum mines of Soledar and Bakhmut.[1]
Again, get fucked you Putin shill.
