Bakhmut Is Where Russians Go To Die

And possibly the Russian empire

Poser Yevgheny Prigozhin poses with Wagner fighters posing near Bakhmut

Bakhmut meant nothing to Ukrainian identity ten months ago. Located in a geological punchbowl, the city is not strategically significant, and the shrinking Ukrainian position there means nothing in real military terms. It is simply the place in Ukraine where the most Russians go to d…