Again, you fail at overall strategy.
Bakhmut is the lynchpin of the Ukrainian defensive lines.
Once those lines are breached, Ukraine is F-ed given the open terrain behind those defensive lines...but they already F-ed via the Referenda, so yeah.
‘Referendum day, Peskov issues warning. Zelensky running out of road, what next?’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaCj9A1On7Y
“Overall strategy “?
You mean like your brilliant idea to pose your elite paratroopers in q badly planned attack on Kyiv?
Or how about your losing thousands of sq miles of territories in days as your logistics are wasted?
Or the destruction of your black sea fleet flagship?
The Russians are pushed back.
And your referenda are as valid as Soviet elections