re: Wagner boss says they lost 20,000 troops in Bakhmut

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Prigozhin said Soviet leader Josef Stalin would not have accepted such failure. A cross-border attack into Russia's Belgorod region indicated the failures of the military leadership, he said, warning that Ukraine would seek to strike deeper into Russia.

Russia needed to mobilise more men and to gear the economy exclusively to war, Prigozhin said.

Wagner, he said, had recruited around 50,000 convicts during the war, of whom about 20% had perished. Around the same amount of his contract soldiers - 10,000 - had perished, he said.

In Bakhmut, Prigozhin said, Ukraine had suffered casualties of 50,000-70,000 wounded and 50,000 dead.

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Russians had prisoner legions during WWII then re-imprisoned them after the war. The resulting fight between the Vors who refused to fight and the ones that did? The Bitch Wars.

I wish I could make this shite up.

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. UK just gave Ukraine missiles that can reach 250KM and soon to have F-16s.

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I'll take things pulled from my arse for $100, Alex. Moscow claimed 6K. Prigozhin is now saying 20K. Like virtually everyone else, I have no idea what to believe, but slapping a 4X value on there is pure speculation. Prigozhin also claimed they were running out of ammo and leaving, then stayed to fight and win, but at what appears to be a pretty heavy cost. Then again, Prigozhin mostly recruited criminals and bagabons into his mercenary army; they aren't well-trained, so maybe Moscow doesn't really care how many die. I hope Obama and the CIA are proud of their efforts to pro-Westernize Ukraine. Looks like it's working out well for everyone from Kyiv to Kazan.

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