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> They lost it inch by inch and paid a very high price. Why do you think they sent some of their best units there, like the “Da Vinci Wolves“, and lost good chunks of them, including, incidentally, said unit’s founder and national hero “Da Vinci“?

To make Russia lose much more forces in the attack. It's a simple gambit — lose 1 soldier to make enemy lose 2 (or more).

Makes sense to lose an unimportant and pretty small piece of territory like that. Doesn't make any sense to retake it with reverse proportion of losses.



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