Brilliant news.
On top of that, unlike Mariupol, early in the war, they didn't expect to be running short of ordanace, but months later it's clear they can no longer afford to waste it on futile shelling and bombing.Not really. If the Ukrainian army doesn’t deploy significant numbers of troops there, then it would be futile wasting ordinance on such a target. It would also be difficult, unlike Mariupol, for the Russians to start flattening a city from a defensive position, especially one that they only recently proclaimed to be their own. Of course, both of these points are based on reasoning, but that also seems to be in short supply In Russia, so I may be entirely wrong.