[Magnum44]

Question: How can Bakhmut be a serious vital supply line when it’s been surrounded on three sides by Russians for months?

Asking for a friend…

[higgmeister]

Question: How can Bakhmut be a serious vital supply line when it’s been surrounded on three sides by Russians for months?

It was only vital for the Russians to lure Ukrainians to there death.

Some things are just not a mystery.

[BroJoeK]

Magnum44: "Question: How can Bakhmut be a serious vital supply line when it’s been surrounded on three sides by Russians for months?"

higgmeister: "It was only vital for the Russians to lure Ukrainians to there death."

The supply road now threatened by Russian forces is said to be vital to resupplying Ukrainian forces defending Bakhmut.

Bakhmut itself is said to be NOT tactically important, that the reason for holding onto it since last August was simply to invite Russians to attack and be destroyed in Ukraine's defensive meat grinder there.

But the truth is Bakhmut is hugely important symbolically because:

"The eastern city is one of the last urban areas of Donetsk that has withstood Russian incursion."

[for-q-clinton]

poor writing. What he is trying to say is the supply route to Bakhmut is being threatened. And without it the soldiers in Bakhmut are at great risk for no strategic gain at this point.

[wardaddy]

Your pal is wrong

Serious control of Bakhmut proper and it’s arteries of travel is pretty recent

Not from three months ago

As I understand it now from telegram orgs is that only sparse exposed open field escape to the due west is all that’s left to pockets of Uke resistance now

Muddy fields

I also read one channel claiming some safe passage to leave was offered to some youth platoons