Exactly. Thats why crowing about taking a unimportant town after 9 months is rather meaningless. It was flypaper put by the Ukrainians. Did the job. Wagner is decimated.
Fir what?
Take your lying agitprop somewhere else.
“Wagner is decimated”
There are two armies opposing Ukraine’s.
“Wagner”, composed of mercenaries and “contracted” prisoners has been doing most of the fighting and dying. The “lesser” Russian Army—composed of conscripts, is not up to the job.
Look at the countryside videos. Russian artillery has put craters all over the place! None are within 200 yards of another crater, and not close to any other trail of tracked or wheeled vehicles. Is their “shotgun” approach effective? It sure doesn’t seem so.
And...does Ukraine HAVE TO HOLD Bakhmut? I recall that “U.S. interests” said to leave it.