[Timber Rattler]

Have the Russians actually taken Bakhmut yet, despite us being told ad nauseum that "it's over" for the past three months?

Answer: No.

'nuff said.

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In the News/Activism forum, on a thread titled Has Ukraine made a big mistake by refusing to retreat from Bakhmut?, Timber Rattler wrote:

Have the Russians actually taken Bakhmut yet, despite us being told ad nauseum that "it's over" for the past three months?

Answer: No.

'nuff said.

The Russians are hunkered down and letting the Ukraine send it's soldiers to defend Bakhmut. There's no need for Russia to move to find soldiers to fight so this is a war of attrition where the Ukrainians send their men to 'defend ' or hold Bakhmut and the Russians kill them, and wait for more.

Both sides are experiencing losses, Russia is satisfied to wait in it's trenches for the Ukrainians to send in more soldiers to kill. No need to 'take' land if you want to destroy the enemies military.

Any chance the Ukrainians had was gone a long time ago. They lost 'too many' soldiers and had too little ammo/hardware (NATO) and lost infrastructure so in conventional warfare, it was expected they would stop and negotiate to spare the remaining public. But NATO and Z are not Ukrainian and so they are going to feed every last Ukrainian/Romanian/NATO conscript and resource into the woodchipper without a reasonable expectation of winning. This is unusual - normally a country conducts war until the losses are too great. In the Ukraine, no amount of citizen and infrastructure loss matters.

Everyday you crank out large amouts of Uke propaganda so it's strange to see you using the 'nuff said' line.