Also, the Special Military Operation is designed to kil l the Uke military, and denazify. So any place you can get Ukraine to invest in serves the purpose of killing Uke military in large numbers. That’s probably also a reason.
The “Falkenhayn strategy” of “bleeding the French dry” at Verdun didn’t work out so well for the Germans in 1916, Comrade Rhino. So what makes you think that the Russians will succeed in this case, with a vastly inferior army, especially considering that Bakhmut is a strategically useless town?