Russsia waste troops and resources trying to take non strategic city in Ukraine

 Reuters:

Ukraine said its forces had repelled Russian assaults along the length of the front line on Thursday on the eve of the war's anniversary, as President Vladimir Putin, empty-handed after a bloody winter offensive, talked up Russia's nuclear arsenal.
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Ukrainian forces repelled 90 Russian attacks in the northeast and east over the past 24 hours, the military said early on Thursday. Ukrainian military spokesperson Brigadier General Oleksiy Gromov said Moscow was trying to use its manpower advantage to exhaust Kyiv's forces.

"The enemy, despite significant losses, does not abandon attempts to surround Bakhmut," he said.

Ukraine has shut some schools for the war's anniversary in anticipation that Moscow might launch long-range missile attacks to mark the date. But Kyiv officials said they believe Moscow no longer has the capability for a dramatic show of force.

"Nothing unusual will happen. Usual (Russian) effort... A small missile strike is planned," military intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov told the Ukrainska Pravda news website. "Believe me, we have experienced this more than 20 times."

Britain's defence ministry said in a daily intelligence update that Moscow could be planning another large-scale assault on Vuhledar, despite costly failed attacks there this month. It said last week that two full brigades of thousands of elite Russian marines had been rendered combat ineffective because of massive losses there.
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There appears to be little intelligence to the Russian war plan.  They are wasting their troops in battles that make no sense and achieving nothing of strategic value in the process.  Putin is talking about nukes because his conventional forces have been an abject failure.

See, also:

Russia’s spies misread Ukraine and misled Kremlin as war loomed

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