Wagner is notorious for its brutality—its recruits are warned never to surrender—and it has released videos showing its soldiers executing their own with sledgehammers for desertion or treachery.
on Bakhmut, claimed Friday the town was all but surrounded and said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky should order his forces to leave via the only route still open to them.
Wagner is notorious for its brutality—its recruits are warned never to surrender—and it has released videos showing its soldiersIn the latest clip, Prigozhin introduces three clearly terrified Ukrainian prisoners, two young men and an older man with a gray beard, who appeal directly to Zelensky to let them leave and return to their families.
According to the Institute for the Study of War, Wagner itself has lost more than 4,000 soldiers in the battle for Bakhmut, with a further 10,000 wounded. Many of them were recruited from Russian prisons with a promise of a pardon and sent directly into the Donbas “meat grinder.” On the Ukrainian side, losses are thought to have been smaller, but it has still been by far the most costly battle fought in the year-long war, and it appears that Ukraine’s defenders are finally running out of time and space., Volodymyr Nazarenko, a deputy commander in the National Guard of Ukraine, described the situation as “critical,” with fighting going on “round the clock.”
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