The number of graves at a cemetery used by a Russian mercenary group has grown over the last two months, satellite images show, suggesting around a sevenfold increase in graves, according to an NBCNews analysis of the site. 🗺️: Maxar Technologies
, promising bounties and pardons in exchange for service. The Wagner Group previously provided assistance to the Russian military during conflicts in Syria and Libya.
Acknowledging Soledar's fall for the first time on Wednesday, Serhii Cherevatyi, a spokesman for Ukraine's forces in the east, said his country's troops had now moved away from the town to previously prepared defense lines, “in order to preserve the lives of the personnel.” He added that added Ukraine had inflicted “huge losses” on Russian soldiers comparable to “the losses of the aggressor in the two Chechen wars.”A cemetery for mercenaries with the PMC Wagner Group in Baku, Russia.
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