Hmmm. If they take it, sounds like a Pyrrhic victory. Looks like the Ukrainians are using Bakhmut to keep Russian forces pinned down, inflict casualties, and destroy Russian equipment.
—”Hmmm. If they take it, sounds like a Pyrrhic victory. Looks like the Ukrainians are using Bakhmut to keep Russian forces pinned down, inflict casualties, and destroy Russian equipment.”
It does appear to be so...
With hard frozen ground they may be able to move armor in, but:
“Rochan Consulting, a firm that monitors the war, says that the urban terrain and Ukraine’s use of anti-tank squads has deterred Russia from employing tanks in the town, leaving infantry dangerously exposed.”