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Bakhmut the siege continues. Eight full months and yet no full resolution? Until now?

"Russian forces likely seized Bakhmut center, threaten supply lines"

Courtesy the NY Post ^ | 04/07/2023 | Olivia Land | the tip from Freeper.

"Russian forces have likely seized the center of the hotly contested city of Bakhmut, where they are threatening an essential supply route for Ukrainian forces in the west, British intelligence said Friday. The eastern city is one of the last urban areas of Donetsk that has withstood Russian incursion. Now mostly reduced to rubble, the city center has been the focus of intense fighting for months"

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Resources as devoted to the siege manpower and material BOTH sides I suspect enormous. The city now having little [?] importance from a tactical/operational/strategic standpoint. The FRONT will merely move five to ten miles to the west [eight to sixteen km.]? 

Let me also suggest: "it ain't over until it's over".

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