THE HISTORIC BATTLE OF BAKHMUT: Ukraine’s tenacious defense of the tiny mining town of Bakhmut is likely to go down in the annals of military history, but its role in the outcome of the war is a chapter yet to be written.

Against the advice of some Western analysts, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and his inner circle have chosen to hold onto the bombed-out shell of a city to deny Russia’s Vladimir Putin a symbolic victory and to inflict massive casualties on the mercenary forces of the Wagner Group, currently Russia’s only credible fighting force. But at the same time, Ukraine has lost thousands of its most battle-hardened front-line troops.

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