The heavy casualties reflect a strategy of sending poorly prepared soldiers on near “suicide missions,” the ministry said.
The Russian death toll from its war in Ukraine could be as high as 60,000, the U.K. said, with U.S. officials saying that at least 15 percent of Moscow’s killed forces were part of a private mercenary group primarily made up of convicts.
“It is becoming increasingly difficult for the Kremlin to insulate the population from the war in Ukraine,” the The Wagner group recruited tens of thousands of jailed Russians in return for amnesty after six months of military service in Ukraine,Kirby said that the private paramilitary group made small advancements over the past few days near the besieged city of Bakhmut, but those incremental gains took months and came at a “devastating cost that is not sustainable.”
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