“Since the battle for Bakhmut began last summer, observers have puzzled over why Moscow expended lives and equipment to destroy and capture a city with limited strategic value. “
The WSJ is carrying water for the Biden regime, again. It doesn’t notice at all that the Ukes kept saying Bakmut was worthless and yet kept hurling their solidiers at it. They bragged that they had Russia surrounded when in reality they had been forced out of the city and were taking shelter in the forest/terrain in the uncontested areas outside the city.
Russia wants to destroy Ukrainian military capability. It’s army didn’t need to chase them around the country. This way they reduce civilian collateral damage and the need to keep their military on the move. They just hunkered down in Bakmut and let the Ukes come to them. They accepted the losses they took.
Bakmut is a central supply line for the Ukes - it was never ‘worthless’ as the Ukes kept saying it was.
And Bakhmut fell to Russian control days ago. Fake news is the the propaganda arm of the demshevik party and globalists.