Russia Ukraine war, page-113106

The reinforcement Ukrainians is providing to Bakhmut is symbolic. They need to get the troops out before it is too late. It is hard to let go of a lost town, Zelenski has been trumped up as the new Alamo. Major psychological and moral downer for the ZSU troops. Regardless, what some in the west have been saying about Bakhmut’s symbolic only value to the Russians, if they want to take a full control of the DPR, it is a village, town, city at a time. Whether they can accomplish that, that’s different story.

Lot of young people gone, but the stakes are high for the both sides. One is defending its territories and one wants to secure the new borders. It’s all in.