An investigation by BBC Russian Service and Mediazona reveals that the Russian private military company (PMC), Wagner Group, lost nearly 20,000 members in the capture of Ukraine's Bakhmut, with over 17,000 being recruited convicts. The casualties occurred between July 2022 and June 2023. The magnitude of losses in Bakhmut surpasses those of the Soviet Union in a decade in Afghanistan. The conflict has been likened to the style of World War I. Wagner paid compensation of about a billion pounds to the families of the deceased fighters.
Almost 20,000 fighters from Russia’s Wagner mercenary group were killed in the intense battle for the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut last year, more men than the Soviet Union lost in the decade-long invasion of Afghanistan ⬇️ https://t.co/kSvooHkjI6
#Russia Lost More Men in Bakhmut Than in Its Afghan War Russian news site Mediazona, working with BBC #Russia, reported that 20,000 #Wagner troops died during last year’s assault on #Bakhmut, almost 90 percent of which were convicts. https://t.co/Lcu6ZNtZRX
The Russian mercenary group Wagner lost almost 20,000 fighters during the infamous battle for Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine and paid their families about a billion pounds in compensation @KieronMonks reports https://t.co/w1zSDzrJFC
An investigation by the Russian news outlet Meduza claims that nearly 20,000 recruits from the Wagner mercenary group were killed in the battle for the Ukrainian town of Bakhmut. The magnitude and style of conflict brings to mind Europe of World War I. https://t.co/qpramUf8SO
🇷🇺🇺🇦 Mediazona and BBC estimates the Russian army casualties via counting death notices on social media and newspapers. That is is obviously an accurate method and you can simply extrapolate. But the Wagner numbers they have from "Secret Wagner documents they got from a secret… https://t.co/ZFatg7FCCa https://t.co/2WsLtXeD9a
When gasping at the scale of Russia’s losses uncovered in the investigation on Wagner Group KIAs in Bakhmut — 19,547! — don’t forget that 17,175 of those guys were recruited out of prisons. If you’re Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Q. Public in Russia, I doubt you’re weeping for their souls.
To put this number in perspective, Wagner lost more in Bakhmut than the Soviet Union did in a decade in Afghanistan. Yet I don’t think this makes a real ripple in Russian society; many view them as prisoners and soldiers of fortune,or can say they went there by their own choice. https://t.co/ogrcR6kaTZ
An investigation from @mediazzzona & @bbcrussian has uncovered that Yevgeny Prigozhin's Wagner Group sent almost 20,000 men to die to capture Bakhmut in brutal fighting between July 2022 and June 2023. The vast majority were recruited in Russia's prisons. https://t.co/CjQuo5svEN
A joint investigation by BBC Russian Service and Mediazona shows that the Russian private military company (PMC) lost nearly 20,000 people in the capture of Ukraine’s Bakhmut — of which more than 17,000 were recruited convicts. #Wagner #Russia #Ukraine