Bakhmut

Bakhmut’s Ruins are Putin’s Victory | Steve Berman

It’s not Russian propaganda that Bakhmut is no longer in the hands of Ukrainian forces. Once every building is hollowed out, leveled, or structurally compromised to the point where it cannot offer shelter, there’s really nowhere for Ukrainian defenders to hide or regroup, so they left. But talk of “Pyrrhic victory” and “Russian losses” is counterproductive. …