Bakhmut is considered to be not unimportant by Zelensky who says that it it will give them an opening to advance further to the strategically important eastern cities of Slovyansk and Kramatorsk (Source: CNN, cant link it because I get an error message by reddit).
Also Michael Kofman, the director of Russia Studies at the U.S.-based Center for Naval Analyses, says that Bakhmut represents “a gateway” to Sloviansk and Kramatorsk, both of which have been subject to recent Russian missile strikes. (Source: Time Magazine, same problem with the links. If you copy that text to google you will find the source)
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Bakhmut is considered to be not unimportant by Zelensky who says that it it will give them an opening to advance further to the strategically important eastern cities of Slovyansk and Kramatorsk (Source: CNN, cant link it because I get an error message by reddit).
Also Michael Kofman, the director of Russia Studies at the U.S.-based Center for Naval Analyses, says that Bakhmut represents “a gateway” to Sloviansk and Kramatorsk, both of which have been subject to recent Russian missile strikes. (Source: Time Magazine, same problem with the links. If you copy that text to google you will find the source)