Zelensky wants Ukrainians to keep dying in droves
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Honestly, the more I have looked into it, the more and more it is looking like a redo of Verdun, with both the good and bad of that connotation. It has become a national symbol of defiance that the national government refuses to surrender, and has managed to hold against all odds despite being surrounded on multiple sides. But that holding has resulted in losses that were more severe then they should have been, and the truth is they only held because the attacker too even heavier losses and ran out of steam before they could deliver the coup de grace.
Bakhmut is only worth holding so long as UKR gets a good K:D ratio there to bleed out and weaken the Russians to soften them for a later offensive.
Unfortunately because both sides have already committed to it for so long, UKR put itself in the position where retreating to more defensible lines further back would be seen as a significant defeat similar to Lysychansk, but the Russians would harp on it far more since it's the only crumb they've gotten since Lysychansk 9 months ago.
I agree that it appears that Russia ran out of juice before it could finish the job.