Who even knows with this war anymore? We've been looking at this exact map for almost a year now, moving pixel by pixel. Both sides crying about muh meatgrinder, how it's super duper strategically important for the other side yadda yadda.
We can't get a clear picture from the ground and I've long stopped putting too much stock in either side's explanations. We'll see in retrospect what happened.
Till then this dumb fucking battle will keep chewing through working class people from both sides for some random as backwater in Donbass. And then we'll watch some more tens of thousands get slaughtered for Chasov Yar & Seversk and then Kramatorsk & Slavyansk and on and on.