- Krivokhuev, look! Verdun... The war of attrition... Cool! Let's do that Verdun thing! Pleasy-please!
- But, sir, the theoretical victory at Verdun was strategically important and Bakhmut will give us quite a minor advancement!
- Fuck you, we are doing it.

— Denis Zakharov (@betelgeuse1922) December 29, 2022