Head of Russian private army Wagner says more than 20,000 of his troops died in Bakhmut battle
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The head of the Russian private army Wagner says his force lost more than 20,000 men in the drawn-out battle for the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut.
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The head of the Russian private army Wagner says his force lost more than 20,000 men in the drawn-out battle for the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut.
The head of the Russian private army Wagner says his force lost more than 20,000 men in the drawn-out battle for the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut.
The head of the Russian private army Wagner says his force lost more than 20,000 fighters in the drawn-out battle for Bakhmut, with about 20% of the 50,000 Russian convicts he recruited to fight in the 15-month war dying in the eastern Ukrainian city.
Yevgeny Prigozhin said that around 10,000 former prisoners out of the 50,000 he recruited to fight in Ukraine had been killed, while an additional 10,000 regular servicemen from his forces had also perished.
Russia’s Wagner mercenary group lost 20,000 fighters — some of which were Russian convicts recruited from prisons — in the ongoing battle for the highly contested Ukrainian city of Bakhmut.…
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Analysts believe the nine-month fight for Bakhmut alone has cost Russia the lives of tens of thousands of soldiers, among them convicts who reportedly received little training before being sent to the front.
Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin claims his force lost over 20,000 men in the battle for Bakhmut. Russia previously claimed that just over 6,000 troops were killed as of January.
KYIV, Ukraine >> The head of the Russian private army Wagner has again broken with the Kremlin line on Ukraine, saying its goal of demilitarizing the country has backfired, acknowledging Russian troops have killed civilians and agreeing with Western estimates that he’s lost more than 20,000 men in t…
