@Tendar 12h
“There is a rather revealing development around Bakhmut. Russians are increasingly targeting the bridges connecting Bakhmut to the west using heavy artillery, mortars and missiles.
Coordinates of the bridge in Ivanivske:
48°34’40.41”N, 37°55’0.78”E
Coordinates of the bridge near Chasiv Yar:
48°35’33.66”N, 37°52’4.37”E
It is not hard to see that Russians apparently do not intend to move further west in that sector and start switching into the defense mode around Bakhmut, trying to cut off the Ukrainian supply lines.
For those asking why Russians didn’t target those bridges west of Bakhmut months ago. Because they genuinely believed to take Bakhmut, easily, and head for the actual targets:
Kramatorsk and Sloviansk
They wanted those bridges intact. The fact that they are starting to target them only now, is an admission of their failure and expression of fear that Ukrainians are now coming for them, which btw. they are indeed.
Those Russian attempts are as clumsy as their whole war effort, because those bridges can easily be replaced. The Siversky Donets Canal is not the Mississippi River. Easy task for bridge-layers, such as for 16 “Brückenlegepanzer Biber” which Germany has delivered.”
A picture is worth 1000 words.
For those asking why Russians didn’t target those bridges west of Bakhmut months ago. Because they genuinely believed to take Bakhmut, easily, and head for the actual targets: Kramatorsk and Sloviansk
What I can't understand is why putin didn't go around Bakhmut and head for the actual targets...probably for the same reason that hitler wanted to take stalingrad.
