Moscow's forces have made the offensive in the Donetsk region a priority since August, the British Ministry of Defence said.
Russia is throwing much of its resources into trying to take Bakhmut but the city in the eastern Donetsk region of Ukraine would only give Moscow's forces a"symbolic" rather than strategic prize, British defense officials have said.that Russia is investing much of its firepower along a roughly ten mile-long sector of the entrenched front line around the city, which has been hard-fought over for months.
The defense officials said that Russia was likely planning to encircle Bakhmut with tactical advances to the north and south. Russian troops had made small advances on the southern axis of the assault, where they are trying to consolidate limited bridgeheads to the west of the boggy ground around the Bakhmutka River, the MOD said.
A Ukrainian tank is seen near Bakhmut in the Donetsk region of Ukraine on December 2, 2022. The U.K. Ministry of Defence said on December 3 that Russia would gain little strategically from taking the city.The offensive has been Russia's priority since early August but the capture of the town"would have limited operational value," although it could be a staging post to threatening the larger urban areas of Kramatorsk and Sloviansk, officials added.
"The campaign has been disproportionately costly relative to these possible gains," the defense officials said."There is a realistic possibility that Bakhmut's capture has become primarily a symbolic, political objective for Russia."has contacted the Russian defense ministry for comment on the MOD assessment which emphasizes Ukrainian gains and Russian losses.
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