Prosecuting its war in Ukraine, Russia continues to incur massive casualties for territory of little strategic value. Russia's strategy is now focused on gains of public symbolic value versus victories that actually advance Moscow's defeat of Ukraine.
Take the battle in Ukraine's southeastern Donetsk region. Having captured the town of Soledar last month, Russian military forces and Wagner Group paramilitaries are now fighting for Bakhmut to the southwest. But as with Soledar, Bakhmut's strategic value to Russia is highly limited.True, on paper, the city's seizure would allow Russian forces to push up the M03 highway 20 miles north to Slovyansk. That would allow for the staging of operations across a far wider area.
Top line: Russia cannot sustain these losses alongside any credible prospect of durable offensive action.
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