Published February 18,2023
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The Russian mercenary firm Wagner Group has suffered greater than 30,000 casualties since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, with about 9,000 of these fighters killed in motion, the White House stated on Friday.
The United States estimates that 90% of Wagner group troopers killed in Ukraine since December had been convicts, White House National Security Council (NSC) spokesman John Kirby advised reporters at an everyday briefing.
Half of the general deaths occurred since mid-December, as preventing within the jap Ukrainian metropolis of Bakhmut intensified, an NSC spokesperson stated, citing newly downgraded intelligence.
Kirby stated mercenary group had made incremental positive factors in Bakhmut in and round Bakhmut over the previous few days, however these had taken many months to attain and got here at a “devastating cost that is not sustainable.”
“It is possible that they may end up being successful in Bakhmut, but it will prove of no real worth to them because it is of no real strategic value,” he stated, including that Ukrainian forces would keep sturdy defensive strains throughout the Donbas area.
Kirby advised reporters that Wagner continued to rely closely on convicts, who had been despatched to warfare with no coaching or tools, regardless of current feedback from Wagner’s founder Yevgeny Prigozhin that he had stopped recruiting prisoners to battle in Ukraine.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
