Russia Behind Bars: Wagner Group’s losses 80 percent of 50K inmate-recruits — Meduza
Out of the 50,000 conscripts recruited by the Wagner Group among the convicts kept in Russian prisons, 40,000 are either dead or missing, and only 10,000 are still fighting in Ukrai...
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Jason Scott Montoya @JasonSMontoya
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Jan 24, 2023
- Curated in Casualties and Losses
“ Our data shows that, as of late December, 42,000–43,000 inmates had been recruited. By now, this is probably upwards of 50,000. Out of that number, 10,000 are now fighting at the front, because the rest have either been killed or wounded, or went AWOL, or deserted, or surrendered.”
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