MOSCOW: Russia threatened Kyiv on Wednesday it would respond 'extremely' harshly to all future incursions, after Moscow deployed jets and artillery to fight off an armed group that crossed over from Ukraine. READ HERE:
As Russia took stock following the most serious attack on its soil since Moscow's offensive in Ukraine began in February 2022, the chief of the Wagner mercenary group said 10,000 prisoners he recruited died in Ukraine.'We will continue to respond promptly and extremely harshly to such actions by Ukrainian militants,' Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu told military officials after two days of fighting in the southern region of Belgorod.
Wagner's ragtag forces Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, whose ragtag forces have been leading an assault for the eastern city of Bakhmut, said around 10,000 convicts that he had recruited to fight with Wagner were killed on the battlefield in Ukraine.'I took 50,000 prisoners of which around 20 percent were killed,' Prigozhin said in a video interview published late Tuesday.
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