Just an observation or two. Okay maybe several.
1. Have you all noticed that prior to a significant UAF counter attack or combined arms offensive operation that there is always between 1 and 3 locations where the Russians mounted huge efforts and got very little to nothing for their efforts and were then kicked hard someplace tender? Repeatedly. In that same spot only a different location than the previous spot.
A certain Metal Manufacturing Plant. In a certain city. On certain highways. At certain Airports. And the latest place is Bakhmut. This time. YES THIS TIME there will be a breakthrough with untrained men who are unsupplied with anything other than orders, some ammo for an outdated and unmaintained weapon of which you are the 10th proud owner of.
It’s brutal fight over a piece of land that will eventually turn into a mass grave for Russians too stupid to sit down and wait to be captured. Yes there will be irretrievable losses for Ukraine too. But far fewer statically if we want to be “objective” about it.
It’s also about the horrific treatment of civilians. War crimes as only Russians can do them.
This is just the latest in a long bloody history in the Russia Ukraine relationship. Bakhmut