Bakhmut has been encircled trapping nearly 25,000 Ukros and supplies cut off
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4128124/posts
That article is hilariously wrong.
There aren’t 25k Ukrainian troops there, and , while the battle is close, Ukraine still has Chasiv Yar .
Then the third paragraph is the same Russian propaganda canard about carving up western Ukraine. Next you’ll be trying to claim bioweapons labs again.
Putin has just been just throwing tens of thousands of men, largely from what he views as his private & expendable Wagner Group, composed 80% of criminal “volunteers” at Bakhmut to achieve some sort of victory there, albeit an apparent Pyrrhic one. Ukraine, realizing how desperate he is for some kind of “victory” is leaving enough forces there for the moment to bleed the Russians, particularly the Wagner Group, dry.
25,000 is very close to the estimate of how many men Russia has lost trying to take Bakhmut over the last 6 months