The relative cost and benefit of defending Bakhmut - aka the Butcher's Bill - continues to favor Ukraine in its military operations there.
Unseasonable snow this week has made Russian offensive operations even less productive than usual. JL
Matthew Luxmoore and Georgi Kantchev report in the Wall Street Journal:
30,000 Russian fighters have been killed or wounded since the battle for Bakhmut began nine months ago, with the Russian side advancing 15½ miles in that time. Col. Gen. Oleksandr Syrskiy, the commander of Ukraine’s ground forces, said time was working against Russia as it suffers heavy manpower losses and struggles to mount assaults on Ukrainian positions in Bakhmut. (And) Ukraine has had success in destroying Russian counter-battery radars used to detect the location of Ukrainian artillery pieces and guide strikes against them.