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Putin loses 100,000 soldiers in just five months in failed siege of Bakhmut, says US – as Wagner chief hints at retreat
RUSSIA has suffered more than 100,000 casualties in the bloody battle for Bakhmut in the last five months, the White House says.
US intelligence estimates say 20,000 Russian troops have been killed and another 80,000 wounded trying to take the small eastern Ukrainian city that’s seen the fiercest fighting of the war so far.
The smouldering remains of a bombarded and battered Bakhmut[/caption]
Moscow has been fighting a grinding war of attrition in Bakhmut but Ukraine has held on to the small eastern city[/caption]
The US estimates Russia has suffered 100,000 losses, including dead and wounded, in only five months in the small city[/caption]
Ukranian soldiers have been bravely defending Ukraine’s bloodiest frontline[/caption]
In the battered and besieged city in the Donetsk region, which only has a few thousand brave residents left, Russia has been trying to break the stale-mate in a gruelling and heavy-casualty war of attrition.
Yet, Ukraine has held on to the city for dear life and managed to stave off encirclement by a Russian onslaught backed by Wagner mercenaries.
National Security Adviser John Kirby said: “We estimate that Russia has suffered more than 100,000 casualties, including over 20,000 killed in action.
“Russia’s attempt at an offensive in the Donbass, largely through Bakhmut, has failed… Russia has been unable to seize any really strategically significant territory.”
Kirby, citing newly declassified US intelligence, said that about half of those killed were Wagner militia soldiers, which draws much of its ranks from prison populations in Russia.
The US estimates account for losses since the start of December, but the battle for the city has been waging for over nine months.
Kirby continued: “This attempted effort, particularly in Bakhmut, has come at a terribly, terribly high cost. Russia has exhausted its military stockpiles and its armed forces.”
Ukrainian soldiers have previously described the fighting in Bakhmut as a hellscape of World War One-style slaughter as Wagner’s largely convict army was thrown into the “meat grinder” and used as “cannon fodder“.
The fighting has become even more intense in recent months as Bakhmut remains the key battle of the war for Putin.
Yet, even Wagner’s brutal chief Yevgeny Prigozhin has threatened to withdraw his fighters from the city in a move that reflects the growing discontent within Putin’s faltering army.
The warlord pinned Russia’s “unjustified” losses in Bakhmut, which are five times higher than across the rest of Ukraine, on the Kremlin’s failure to provide ample ammunition in a live broadcast.
“It would have been five times fewer if we had more ammunition,” said Prigozhin, accusing Russian soldiers of not providing his men with the necessary equipment.
“Are we going to remain here or not,” asked Prigozhin, before vowing: “We are going to attack Bakhmut to our last bullet, but these munitions are not even enough for a week, mere days.
“And so if the munitions deficit is not addressed we will be required…not to run like cowardly rats [but] to either retreat, or remain to die.”
Kirby did not give estimates of Ukrainian casualties in Bakhmut, stating the reason was because “they are the victims here. Russia is the aggressor.”
The White House, he said, will not put “information in the public domain that makes it any harder” for the close Western ally whose army is being armed and trained by a US-led coalition of countries.
Heroic Ukrainian defenders have held out against relentless waves of attacks for months.
They now control only part of the city, including the vital last supply route to the city known as the “road of life”.
Serhiy Cherevatyi, a spokesperson for Ukrainian troops in the east said the defending troops “have not allowed the Russians to cut off our logistics”.
Warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin near the graves of fallen Wagner mercenaries many of which have been killed in Bakhmut[/caption]
Ukrainian troops have described the ‘hell’ of fighting in Bakhmut, where the life expectancy can be as low as four hours[/caption]
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I sell bars of soap made out of my breast milk – I’ve made $100,000, it’s great for everything from acne to eczema
A MOTHER has accrued six figures in profit after selling soaps made from breast milk.
Taylor Robinson uses defrosted, donated, and expired milk and different natural oils to create the product.
Taylor Robinson has made over $100,000 from making soap out of breast milk[/caption]
She repurposes breast milk that would have expired and uses it as a vital ingredient[/caption]
The 31-year-old started her small business in 2020 with just $200, but it wasn’t until early 2021 that she decided to introduce the beauty product into the range.
Named after her three-year-old son, she credits the success of her company Leo Jude Soap Co to the milk.
The Jackson, Ohio native got the idea years ago when she was breastfeeding her son Leo, and her friend asked for the ingredient in a bar of soap.
“When my friend asked me to make her one at first I did think it was a little weird,” Taylor said.
“It was odd she wanted to use my breast milk but after reading about it I realized how amazing it is and got to it.”
“The reactions vary from extreme disgust to absolute admiration,” Taylor told NeedToKnow.online.
Breast milk is said to help soften skin, as well as reduce redness, oiliness, sensitivity, and itchiness.
She mixes the milk with oils, then makes the mixture into bars of soap.
The business owner even makes custom orders which have mothers ship their breast milk from across the world to her business.
The mum-of-two has gone on to make $100,000, selling the soaps for $14 a bar or $100 for a whole load.
“It seems like the older and much younger generations are usually grossed out by it, but Millennials and Gen-Z are aware of how amazing breast milk is,” Taylor shared.
She uses local breast milk which is expired for consumption and repurposes it because it would just go to waste otherwise.
“All that hard work the mum spent pumping isn’t for no reason.”
“It just means it’s been in the freezer for over a year and that makes it no longer good for consumption,” she said.
You can still receive all the skin health benefits from the milk, and her customers absolutely love it.
“It’s such a beautiful part of motherhood that goes into our soaps,” she added.
The soap has been known to help with minor rashes, diaper rash, cradle cap, acne, and eczema.
Taylor also juggles being a mom to her 13-month-old daughter Marz.
The soap is loved by millennials and Gen-Zers alike[/caption]