It took the Kremlin almost a year and cost the lives of thousands of soldiers to capture Bakhmut, but now that Russian forces appear to have control of the Ukrainian city, it is fair to question the value of what they have gained.Russia's state media has been triumphalist.One news anchor declared, Mission accomplished over the weekend in a segment that quoted a Russian fighter who compared the seizure of Bakhmut with the Soviet Union's capture of Berlin in 1945.
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