If you keep flooding Bakhmut with Ukrainian bullet stoppers you can keep claiming Bakhmut Holds for propaganda purposes, the Russians are probably shaking their heads at the amount of Ukrainian Christian men that Zelensky is happy to sacrifice for a supposed low value town.
Zelensky and his US handlers are just creating thousands of Ukrainian widows and fatherless kids every week, Kirby and Blinken don't want any ceasfire while there are still Ukrainian men upright.
