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ARTICLE
Opinion: How the battle for Bakhmut exposed Russia’s ‘meat-grinder’
Opinion by Michael Bociurkiw
Updated 1:16 PM EDT, Fri April 14, 2023
CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/14/opinions/battle-bakhmut-ukraine-russia-war-bociurkiw/index.html
***Editor’s Note:
Michael Bociurkiw (@WorldAffairsPro) is a global affairs analyst currently based in Odesa. He is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council and a former spokesperson for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. He is a regular contributor to CNN Opinion. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion at CNN. Odesa
When the war in Ukraine finally comes to an end, the besieged city of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine will go down as one of the most recognizable symbols of the conflict.
A place where happiness was brutally replaced with blood-drenched killing fields.
It will also be recorded in history as a battle that exposed more than anywhere the meat-grinder approach of Russian fighting. Where sending wave upon wave of fighters – including former convicts recruited by the Wagner mercenary group and Russian elite forces – became a military tactic to dislodge Ukrainian forces from the city.
For a prize of highly-questionable military value, the Kremlin, not known for valuing human life – even that of its own citizens – established a new threshold that tolerated the loss of several of its own combatants to every Ukrainian.
“The Russians at the moment, despite trying for six months, with huge numbers of personnel and huge numbers of losses, have been unable to take the town and at the moment have made very, very slow progress,” Western officials said in a briefing last week.
Various experts and entities have debated the military significance of capturing Bakhmut – a city with a pre-war population of around 70,000 – with most agreeing a win or loss there would not alter the trajectory of the war. These days, those remaining are thought to number fewer than 4,000, including 38 children.
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At: https://twitter.com/nanoiridium/status/1650723678261477377
“Apparently the Russian infantry have some much more mobile mortar style weapon they’re using to bombard Ukrainians attempting to advance.”
Another reminder that Ukraine needs thousands of pickup trucks, with SPG-9 recoilless rifles or mortars mounted on the bed.