[cranked]

If the Russians wanted to capture or take it, they already would have.

The better question is why ZelesnkyyIdiot and Ukraine is fighting so desperately to hold it at horrendous losses to manpower and equipment they can ill afford to be losing?

[ought-six]

“If the Russians wanted to capture or take it, they already would have.”

Wait a minute. Bakhmut is part of Donbas and eastern Ukraine; that part of Ukraine that Russia “annexed.” So, Russia already “took it” when it annexed it; no? So, Russia is razing its own territory? If Ukrainian forces have been so thoroughly defeated (that’s what you propaganda peddlers keep telling us), why is Russia destroying its own?

[Blood of Tyrants]

Neither side can sustain the war at the present rate much longer.

[Petrosius]

If the Russians wanted to capture or take it, they already would have.

Oh, give it a break! The Russians have already shown to the world that they are not the supermen that you think they are.

[jdsteel]

“ If the Russians wanted to capture or take it, they already would have.”

If they could have….they would have.