Western official: Russia suffered 60,000 casualties in Bakhmut

https://news.yahoo.com/western-official-russia-suffered-60-020202969.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAABqO1E1LWLhF4SwjoelK_Vp2b5WxygnOdKAt_urYiFq7pgA4V7H0f0PB0aUal-yqtn2MjuTb9vo9DioPvkx9ENHMcCCVQ5p0MCVe3R6f0xDWye1R37oqRyPAyCNcDLH-SwJAkBSc2UdstISOUmnAP7K9YQ7eoNsfWCduFg8rJ2Zh

So why didn't that sucker turn blue?

Great... another unknown governmental employee from an unknown country gives his estimation.

Here is #1 source:
news.yahoo.com/western-official-russia-suffered-60-020202969.html?guccounter=1

And here is the source which the aforementioned source was copy pasted from:
news.sky.com/story/ukraine-russia-war-latest-moscow-drone-attack-kyiv-putin-12541713?postid=5993569#liveblog-body
Don't bother looking for their source, it was reported by SKY News, and they never disclose which ass they quoted from.

It may or may not be true, but news without sources is just hearsay.

www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/international/2023/05/01/u-s---russia-has-suffered-100k-casualties-in-bakhmut-since-december

This one names the source

'National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters the figure includes about 20,000 soldiers killed in combat and 80,000 wounded

About half of the 20,000 Russian fighters killed in the war were from the Russian mercenary Wagner Group, most of whom were recruited out of prisons, Kirby said

Kirby declined to release the number of casualties Ukraine has suffered in the region, saying that disclosing that information is up to Kyiv'

Cock-Bull story.
I'll see what Kyiv Gives the mortality number at bet its less than 10K