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1. As #Russian commanders expend more forces to take the last #Ukrainian-held area of western #Bakhmut city, the #Ukrainians may be quietly disengaging from the city and instead focusing on a strategy to turn Russian-held Bakhmut into a massive kill zone.
2. The propaganda value to Russian leadership of being able to finally announce taking Bakhmut after over a year of massive casualties may be short-lived if the Ukrainian strategy works. Rather than waste more soldiers and material in beating back the waves
3. of Wagner attackers, Ukraine appears to have chosen to seek the envelopment the Russian position in Bakhmut while the Russians are laser-focused solely on advancing towards what may be a pyrrhic victory of occupying a totally-destroyed Bakhmut city.
4. Tuesday, Ukraine focused on preparing to move on #Berkivka and #KrasnaHora with several artillery strikes and attacks on the Russian trench fortifications in the forest east of Orkhovo-Vasylivka to set the stage for an advance down the heights north of Bakhmut. 
5. It's unclear whether Ukrainian plan is to simply create three-sided cross-fire to decimate the Russians in Bakhmut or attempt a full encirclement perhaps trusting the Russian command to fail to withdraw in time to save the force from surrender or
6. annihilation like they did with the large force they allowed to be slaughtered near #Ivaniske.
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