Comments by "Univeropa" (@univeropa3363) on "What's Russia's strategy to take Soledar and Bakhmut? | DW News" video.

😂 Now you've found an expert who admits that Bakhmut is actually important? Please, get the American think tankers on again and have them explain why Ukraine is pouring more and more reinforcements into what everyone calls a meatgrinder, despite the city being so unimportant.
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@ericdpeerik3928 Have you skipped the part where the lady mentions that taking Bakhmut would help with Russia's logistics?
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@waynesmith7746 Sure, "damaging", what a load of bull you are shovelling. Ukraine exhausted its reserves in ultimately pointless offensives and Russia conserved its forces by pulling out instead of fighting idiotic last stands as Ukraine did in Mariupol or what we are currently witnessing in Bakhmut (if you subscribe to the naive "Bakhmut isn't valuable" narrative). The truth is that the entire defensive line from Bakhmut to Siversk is in jeopardy if either Soledar or Bakhmut falls. As for the logistic part, that's just false. The question that one has to ask is the number of big road and rail connections and their directions that determine how valuable a piece of land is. Take Ukraine moving into Kherson, how has that improved the logistical position of Ukraine exactly? They are now staring at a natural barrier and get shelled from the other side. This hasn't helped Ukraine in the slightest, because the important goal, that is the cutting off and the destruction of the Russian grouping in Kherson, didn't work out.
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@ffffuchs It's widely acknowledged that Russia has a massive artillery advantage over Ukraine. Unless you buy into the stories of human wave tactics it's not Russia that is suffering humongous losses in Bakhmut.
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@harmless6813 And another one. Sure, sure, will the next thing coming out of your fingers be a statement about how Russia is running out of rockets? ;)
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@Grek1574 What are you even trying to say?
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@ffffuchs Yeah, that last sentence of yours confirms my suspicions. You are high on kool-aid and projecting hard.
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@harmless6813 Who's claimed that, and please don't tell me it was "anonymous state department officials". The first time I read a claim that Russia bought shells from North Korea (which they might be doing, who can tell) the article tried to make the claim that the ammunition stocks were being smuggled through North Africa. I wouldn't have to explain to you why I find the claim dubious, now would I?
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@mac_mcleod Assuming that what you are telling is true (and I'm sure you can provide me with an article) it still means that Russia is firing multiple times more at Ukraine than vice versa.
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@mac_mcleod Well, my search found me articles from March and July, lest we forget that these claims haven't been made since the 24th of February. After all, in addition to ammunítion and rockets the Russians are also running out of tanks and morale and food and fuel and soldiers and literally everything you need to wage a war. As for defending at Bakhmut, how about falling back to a place that isn't as degraded and manpower consuming as Bakhmut, if it is so unimportant?
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@mac_mcleod Which makes me wonder why you didn't take the time to include a link. Of course, what I can gather from the article is that it is based on the claims of the Director for National Intelligence, Avril Haines. Who, I'm sorry, can hardly be described as an impartial source, nor have American intelligence agencies impressed, lately.
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@mac_mcleod Well, I didn't, but apparently you don't know what to say anymore, seeing as your source is the head of US intelligence who would neeeevvveeer lie about a war the US is a party to.
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