The situation in Bakhmut is becoming increasingly fraught as Russia continues to feed into the meat grinder there, progressing with an encirclement of the city and putting its remaining supply/ now escape routes under significant stress. It's a Russian plan in progress, one which has been moving at the pace of a glacier that is yet to finish - perhaps it will never be fully successful.

The headline uses the analogy of a noose, but that hardly seems unreasonable considering the context.

Would you prefer reporting which did not reflect developments on the ground?