6/ quick note as a friend forwarded me this info, earlier today :
"For three days of counteroffensive actions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Bakhmut direction, 17.3 km² were liberated", — the speaker of the Eastern Forces Group, Cherevatyi reports.

DO NOT CARE !!
because it actually means NOTHING.
sometimes 50km2 < 10km2

only matters if you take Heights in important areas or strategical roads, or key little town etc.

7/ Also & for instance if UKR would use 10k men to "re-seize" 50km2 of the city of #Bakhmut in one go it would totally stupid and would represent almost nothing!
but gaining back 10km2 on all the heights around the city is much much more important. etc etc.

this km2 "meme" that i have observed being developed by schmuck who just want to "show off" on social networks gets on my nerves sometimes.

here it's a bit diff because UKR command needs to communicate to his own population so they r

8/ given them some kind of "infos, like that... because they don't/can't communicate on other details

but to be honest and one more time, unless let's say UKR take back territory up to the red stripe on the map i've just made. this would be almost meaningless.

because then from a single really counter attack, the Ru troops within the city would fear to be trapped...

so keep cool, right now is "fun" but not at all decisive.

9/ je veux juste préciser pour ceux qui lirait ça que cette manœuvre n'aurait de toute façon pas gd intérêt au regard du coup humain/matériel. il vaudrait bien mieux faire bcp plus "large" sur la zone concernée.
j'en reparlerai en privé.

donc si déjà les UKR reprenaient donc toutes les "hauteurs" et arrivaient à décoller les >Ru de leurs lignes de contact directe, donc proche du cours natural de la #Bakhmutovka au nord et sud, oui ce serait par contre vraiment déjà formidable.