It's a slow humiliation all round.
The question is, can Putin survive it?
The general feeling is that a major push by the AFU (Armed forces of Ukraine) is not far off. The BBC report
https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1836808.html
reflects the fact that most of the information coming out now is only from Russian sources, due to a news blackout from the other side. So it's doom and gloom from the folks on the ground, denied by official sources. As ever, the truth is probably somewhere is between.
As far as Bakhmut is concerned, Ukrainians apparently attack on the flanks, and defend continued assaults in between. Supposedly Wanger elements have been fleeing. Not sure.
It does seem that there has been a sporadic chipping away at parts of the front line by the AFU, with some advances, no doubt to instil panic and confusion on the Russian side. Along with the referred-to attacks on weapons stores and troop concentrations, which continue.