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In the Bakhmut area alone, the Russian army carried out 21 shelling and 9 clashes in a last day. In total, in this small conglomeration in the area of ​​the settlements around Bakhmut (Vasyukovka, Dubovo-Vasilovka, Bogdanovka) + Bakhmut and Ivanovskoye, 131 shelling of the enemy from MLRS and artillery was recorded and 38 combat contacts occurred. Serhiy Cherevaty, the speaker of the eastern group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, commented on today's blowing up of bridges as follows: “This is a war, and in such a flurry of fire, critical infrastructure facilities are also being destroyed. But the experience of more than a year of war on a large scale and in general of a 9-year war allows us to rebuild the defense and resist in the future, despite the fact that the occupiers damage the infrastructure”. Let me remind you that Bakhmut is a small town with a population of 10 thousand inhabitants (before the war). The Russian army (calling itself the "second army of the world") has been storming Bakhmut since August 1, 2022, that is, at the time of publication for 7+ months, and still cannot capture it. Nevertheless, in the last week, reports of the withdrawal of certain units of the Ukrainian armed forces from Bakhmut have become more frequent. Since this city is not really of great strategic importance, its defense has the main goal: to wear down the Russian army. In this area, the Russians suffer losses 1: 7 (for one dead Ukrainian soldier, there are 6-7 Russians). As soon as the fortifications in Bukhmut are destroyed, the Ukrainian army can retreat to the next line of defense and wear down the enemy there. If the Russians spend 7 months and tens of thousands of soldiers to take every small town with a population of 10 thousand inhabitants, this will not end well for them. And at the beginning of the war, they threatened to "take Kyiv in three days," and then go to Poland and the Baltic states. Particularly isolated propagandists on Russian TV shouted that they would "reach the English Channel." Although this war is a terrible tragedy, there is a grain of irony in this story: the army, which wanted to go victoriously to the English Channel, whose helicopters and tanks had the inscriptions "To Berlin" in March 2022, one year later stopped at unknown provincial town Bakhmut (essentially a village).