US State Department spokesman Ned Price stated that Bakhmut has little strategic importance to Russia but capturing it is the only opportunity for Russia to demonstrate some battlefield results.

Bakhmut, where the fiercest fighting is currently taking place, is of little strategic importance to the Russians in terms of the operational situation. Russian forces seek to capture the city because they have no other options to achieve at least some gains on the battlefield.

Russian forces would have an 'open road' to seize other critical settlements in eastern Ukraine if they capture Bakhmut.

Ukrainian troops are suffering heavy losses in the defense of Bakhmut.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Tuesday that the capture of the industrial town of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine was key to launching a further offensive in the wider Donetsk region.

The enemy threw Wagner's additional forces into battle.

Battles for Bakhmut reached the highest level of tension.

Ukrainian defenders inflicted significant losses on the enemy and destroyed a large amount of equipment.