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**Okay so this is a complete turn around from previous claims on Bakhmut. It’s been repeatedly claimed that Russia taking Bakhmut was a hollow, pyrrhic victory. Of no significance. Politically important but not strategically important?** **Now Zelensky is stating the fate of Ukraine, the entire nation rests on the eastern battles including Bakhmut?!**

[Evening Standard](https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/bakhmut-ukraine-volodymyr-zelensky-video-address-russia-putin-wagner-b1067080.html)
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![](https://i0.wp.com/pennyforyourthoughts2.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/image-35.png?resize=580%2C403&ssl=1)[ Zelensky](https://www.standard.co.uk/topic/volodymyr-zelensky) has vowed to “destroy” Russian forces in war-town Bakhmut as he warned [Ukraine](https://www.standard.co.uk/topic/ukraine)’s future rests on the fate of battles raging in the east of the country.

The Ukrainian president said soldiers were facing **“very tough and painful” c**onditions in the area where the fight to win overall control of the destroyed mining town has become Europe’s bloodiest infantry battle since World War Two.

**“It is very tough in the east, very painful,” he said. “We need to destroy the enemy’s military might, and we will.**

> ##### “Bilohorivka and Maryinka, Avdiivka and Bakhmut, Vuhledar and Kamyanka – and all other places where our future is being decided. Where our future, the future of all Ukrainians, is being fought for.”

**Obviously this is a location of significance and Ukraine has fought defensively for some time now and the losses are piling up. In a previous post, western voices were saying, Ukraine should remove the troops from this location. I don’t believe they have.**

> **“So far they’ve held the city, but if need be, they will strategically pull back because we’re not going to sacrifice all of our people just for nothing,” said Alexander Rodnyansky.**

> [Bakhmut (Artemovsk) Encircled- Ukraine Evacuates Kupiansk](https://pennyforyourthoughts2.ca/2023/03/03/bakhmut-artemovsk-encircled-ukraine-evacuates-kupiansk/)