Why Russia sacrifices hundreds of deaths a day for the battle for Bachmut

“They don’t even count the bodies anymore.” The heaviest battle of the moment in Ukraine is being fought near the eastern city of Bachmut. And that is really no more than a city with some highways and railways that can lead the Russians to … places where Ukraine is even stronger. Only, as Russia knows, every Ukrainian soldier who has to be deployed in Bachmut cannot be elsewhere. “A battle of attrition”, says Professor Emeritus Luc De Vos of the Royal Military School. This is why there is so much blood flowing in Bachmut.

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