Comments by "John Walsh" (@johnwalsh4857) on "How Bakhmut Became Europe's Deadliest Post-WWII Battle: A Warographics Analysis" video.

and in thsi Ukrainian offensive, the Russians are employing a lot of anti retreat units the Russian despite low morale are not retreating mostly from their trenches but fighting to the end, due to anti retreat untis. , it results in making it more difficult for the Ukrs to breach Russian defences however if the Ukrs manage to punch a big hole in Russian defences and exploit it, those anti retreat units will be a lot less effective since they will retreat themselves. also a big gap means since defences can be bypassed and dealt with later. so the grind continues. also the Russians seem to have air superiority , good air support since they are closer now to their lines , and as usual strong artillery support. and also ECM to jam the drones etc.
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@tedcurrently6092 true but the challenge is gettting back the lost territories and kicking the Russians out. and yes the Russians wont be gaining much new terrritory in this war, in fact the Ukrs captured 50 percent of what they lost to the Russians in the war.
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well to the Ukrs Bakhmut was an important site to attrit the Russians, do as much damage to the Russians as possible. and expensive in terms of resources spent. also to make as expensive as possible noting the Ukrs fortified the crap out of Bakhmut. and for the Russians a victory at Bakhmut is one less obstacle towards controlling all of the Donbass plus in the face of their defeats at Kherson and Kharkov the Russians needed a win. so hence the offensive, plus it was given to Prigozhin to do it since the Russians military did not want to do the Bakhmut offensive since they knew it would be super costly, Prigozhin on the other hand reasoned that convicts can be used to take bakhmut since they were super expendable. the Russian public wont care if criminals were exterminated in Bakhmut. however now nearly 9 months into the battle, the battle of Bakhmut is not over, sure the Russians took 90 percent of Bakhmut but the Ukrainains are still fighitng at the edges of the city and holding the heights and the Russians have not done offensives after wagner left. and Russian regular army replaced wagner group at Bakhmut. In short, Bakhmut was a trap for the Russians to waste as much manpower and resources as possible. which the Russians took. Now if the Ukrs retake bakhmut this would be a unmitigated disaster for Putin and the Russian army politically, Prigozhin can use this to try to oust Shoigu and Garasimov. a Russian defeat at Bakhmut would be seen as an untter embarassment for Putin.
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that is also why the Russian blew up the dam, since the Russian knew the Ukraininans were going to cross the Dniepr and attack into Southern Kherson. well now the ukrs offensive has stalled, its just probes by the Ukrs wit their main forces still in reserve and not committed, the Russian army is counterattacking at all fronts but have not made much results. and bloodily thrown back in teh bunch of points. and the Kherson area is flooded which will really hamper a Ukr crossing of the Dniepr.
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SLAVA UKRAINE....destroy the Orcs.
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The boss seems to have divorced himself from the war. he is just letting his people do their thing and not interfering and micromanaging. that is why the Russians seem to be more effective and better organized these days since the Shoigu and Garasimov have been given free reign with little to no interference to do their thing.
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