LOL MacGregor has been wrong about everything he’s said about Ukraine from the beginning. Russia has been assaulting Bakhmut for 10 months, was incapable of encircling the city and is still fighting block by block. Other Russian assaults are going nowhere. And this is after raising another 250-300K troops in the fall. Meanwhile, American aid workers who have just been in Ukraine are saying the Ukrainians are telling them they have 1 million men under arms and had to stop raising more because they don’t have the equipment.
Good to know, and the kind of real intel the news doesn't talk about.
Russia doesn’t wanna encircle bakhmut completely. They’re leaving Ukraine a way into the city so they can wipe out more of their numbers with artillery. That, naturally, COULD take several months.
In such a scenario, it’s not up to the attackers how long it takes to take the city. It depends on how many defenders Ukraine wants to spend holding on to it.
Russia is going to continue killing them until they stop coming