 In the Bakhmut direction, the enemy has lost about 100,000 manpower over the past nine months. Colonel Sherry Charovity, representative of the Eastern Group of Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. But this is an approximate estimate. I'm sure that further verification will only increase this figure. This is natural since the enemy uses the so-called meat attacks of personnel as the main method of warfare, he said. Before this, the White House estimated that Russia's military has suffered 100,000 casualties in the last five months in fighting against Ukraine in the Bakhmut region. The White House National Security Spokesperson John Kirby told reporters the figure based on US intelligence estimates including more than 20,000 dead, half of them from the Wagner Group, the Bakhmut offensive, has stalled and failed, he said. Ukraine, conversely, is in a position to turn Russia's divisive terrain in Bakhmut into Kyiv's decisive terrain and accelerate the timeline for Moscow's withdrawal.