With the failures published all over the internet of the Ukrainian counteroffensive and the lack of progress it appears a deadline is set, probably because of the fact that NATO is running out of equipment to send, and are growing tired of watching offensive after offensive being destroyed from afar by KA-52 or by mines and artillery, and it seems they believed their own propaganda of Russians being weak, pathetic, feeble and not motivated, something that will require even more intensive brainwashing to overcome with the next batch of cannon fodders groomed by French psychologists, though it's reported that in Ukraine they still believe they control 2% of Bakhmut, no joke!
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and it looks like they've moved north from the outskirts of Klishchivka into the southernmost bit of bakhmut itself, While the actual volume of the territory recaptured is pretty minimal. The fact that the Ukrainians are already back in Bakhmut itself