For every kilometer traveled, more than 800 Russian servicemen were killed or wounded.
Russian army and private military companies Wagner in the battles for Bakhmut, Donetsk region, since May last year, they lost from 20 to 30 thousand dead and wounded. This was said by Ian Stubbs, senior military adviser to the British delegation to the OSCE, Ukrinform reports.
“Russia is suffering extremely heavy losses. Since May 2022, only in the Bakhmut area, from 20 to 30 thousand Wagnerites and regular Russian military have been killed and wounded – this is a huge human loss with a total advance which is about 25 kilometers,” he said at the meeting of the Security Cooperation Forum in Vienna.
According to a British military diplomat, this means that “for every kilometer of travel, there are more than 800 Russian soldiers killed or wounded, most of them militants. Wagner.
Because of this, according to him, the owner of PMC Wagner It’s getting harder and harder for Yevgeny Prigozhin to resupply what he calls a “meat grinder” in eastern Ukraine.
Recall that Prigozhin had previously complained about the situation in Bakhmut. He said that the Armed Forces of Ukraine formed a group to block the “Wagnerites”.
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Source: korrespondent
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