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Bakhmut front stabilised.

Hopefully, this is accurate, but I am a little skeptical.

A False Flag operation?

I don't think using Leopards around Bakhmut now would be a good idea. Until they are the Leopard 1 tanks, roughly equivalent to T-62.
Best tanks need to be saved for the spring offensives, when steppe becomes passable with them.

The situation in and around Bakhmut is changing hour by hour, back and forth, with plenty of fog of war. The big picture is, the goal of both sides is to give their enemy heavy losses. According to the analysts I listened to, if Russian losses are 5:1, Ukraine is winning it; if Russian losses are 2:1, Russians are winning - in such case, Ukraine is losing more ability to fight than Russia. So, it's tricky to do it right.
But from this picture, you can see that saving ability to continue to fight is more important for Ukrainians than saving Bakhmut.

Yes, time will tell.
If Ukrainians lose Bakhmut, Kramatorsk ends up within "comfortable" range of Russian artillery. And Kramatorsk is super important. So we have the same meat grinder moved closer to a vital artery.
Tanks could be used for counter-flanking or how it's called - cutting off the forces aiming at surrounding you.
Maybe they're doing it.
I can't tell. The fog of war is very dense there.

^Another reason to keep them until May.
Currently, General Mud reigns.


The situation around Bakhmut is becoming really bad, a bridge for supplying and possible evacuation has been destroyed.
Some say Ukrainians are retreating, others say they are not. The fog of war is dense.

According to comments of general Skrzypczak (a retired Polish general giving interviews to a wide variety of media), Bakhmut has served its purpose of a meat grinder - and even if Ukrainians lose it now, the battle of Bakhmut probably debilitated Russian forces enough to prevent the feared big offensive this spring - while Ukrainians are keeping their best units and preparing new hardware they are getting from the West, waiting for the right weather to strike.

Looking at a map, I believe I see what they should do - but weather they are able to do it is a completely different question. Now is the time to provide support.