Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "RUSSIAN KILL BOX WORKING AS INTENDED - Ukrainian forces handicapping themselves with their strategy" video.

  1. If they lose Bakhmut, it's pretty much open territory beyond. Very difficult to defend. They can make a real fight out of Bakhmut, but not the rolling ground beyond. Ukrainians are in a trap. But they've been in this trap since their oligarchs started cutting deals with western crooks in the political establishment. I think the Ukrainians fear the total breakout, should Russia break through the line through Bakhmut. It's ironic, because I don't think territorial ambitions are driving the Russian war effort. I think their goal is to render the military that's against them inert. I think the Ukrainians are fighting for every inch of territory at enormous cost in men and material, and the Russians are content to sit back and bomb and shell the desperate attempts to rush troops and ammo to the pockets the Russians are "struggling" to pacify. It's bait that Zelensky's government must take. Over and over. Casualties are running somewhere between 6-to-1 and 10-to-1 in favor of the Russians. I don't get caught up in the daily minutiae. But I do try to keep tabs on the human and material cost, and wherewithal to sustain it, and it's looking like Ukraine is about tapped out.
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