How can the destruction of Bakhmut be seen as a victory for Moscow?

After pounding by artillery, rockets, cruise missiles, air-launched bombs and everything else in the Russian armoury, Bakhmut looks like Dresden after it was firebombed by the Allies in the Second World War. There is nothing left in Bakhmut for it to justify being called a city. Like Mariupol on the northern coast of the Sea of Azov which received similar treatment by the Russians last year, Bakhmut is a place of death and rubble. It will take billions and billions of dollars for both cities to be restored to their former glory. Who is going to do it? The Russians? No, not a hope in hell. They will remain, probably for years, as the legacy of Vladimir Putin's war. It almost doesn't matter that the Russian army is now supposedly taking over control of Bakhmut from the notoriously murderous Wagner Group of Russian convicts. There is nothing for them to control, the devastation is so great. My own experience of walking through a city destroyed by war was in the 1990s in Bosnia. The city of Mostar, or at least the eastern section of it where the Muslim population lived. After the artillery barrages launched by the Croatian forces there wasn't a building left which had not either been reduced to rubble or made structurally, dangerously unsound. When a city is destroyed like that, what's left is an eery silence. I shall never forget it. So the Russian troops will be walking around the ruins of Bakhmut and, hopefully, wondering what the point of it all had been. Putin thinks it was a victory. It was never that.