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Is this the real reason Russia is trying to seize Bakhmut from Ukraine?

Bakhmut has been the scene of some of the bloodiest fighting in Ukraine (Credit: Getty images)

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James Snell

James Snell is a senior advisor for special initiatives at the New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy. His upcoming book, Defeat, about the failure of the war in Afghanistan and the future of terrorism, will be published by Gibson Square next year.

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