Russia’s Wagner Group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin said in an interview posted on Telegram Wednesday that about 20,000 of his fighters were killed in the 224-day battle of Bakhmut.
Prigozhin said half of those who died in the brutal battle were convicts he recruited from prison. “Throughout the [entire combat] operation, I recruited 50,000 prisoners, of which about 20% died. Exactly the same number died as those who signed up through a contract,” he said, according to ZeroHedge.