The Discord Leaks: Leaked top secret intelligence assessments show Washington warned Kyiv that defending besieged Bakhmut was costing too many casualties and would inevitably fail. Those warnings have largely gone unheeded.
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When Palisa arrived at his post in mid-January, the assessments he heard from the officers around him echoed Washington’s pessimism. When the defense of the city seemed untenable at critical moments, Ukraine repeatedly deployed elite units to protect supply roads and steady the situation. In a statement Thursday, the Russian Defense Ministry said its forces led by airborne units “foiled the enemy’s attempts to counterattack” and to deploy reinforcements to Bakhmut’s north and south.
Once inside Bakhmut, the fight almost immediately slowed to a block-by-block slog. At times, the two sides would battle for weeks over control of a handful of residential blocks, Melnikav“If you look at it in a strategic way, Ukrainian forces are holding a lot of enemy troops inside the city; it prevents them from going to different parts of the front line,” Tatarin said. “That’s why we’re holding on to the city, to eliminate as many enemy forces as possible.
“I can give an assessment of the success of the mission only after everything is finished,” he said, dodging a question about whether the fight has been worth the lives lost and materiel spent.
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