Prigozhin announced losses among former prisoners during the assault on Bakhmut
During the assault on Artyomovsk, more soldiers died than Soviet soldiers during the entire war in Afghanistan.
This was stated by the head of the Wagner PMC, Yevgeny Prigozhin, in an interview with ex-speaker of the DPR Foreign Ministry Konstantin Dolgov, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Prigozhin said that the losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces are estimated at 50 thousand people. Approximately another 50-70 thousand Ukrainian soldiers were out of action due to injury. As a rule, the Wagnerites cut off the rear, which made it difficult to evacuate the wounded Ukrainians, so their condition became serious.
Prigogine estimates the losses of the “musicians” as follows:
“I have 3,2 fewer killed. And I have approximately half as many wounded,” he said.
A little later in an interview, he said that more than 10 thousand soldiers died from PMCs in Artyomovsk.
The head of the PMC rejected accusations of “meat assaults” by prisoners.
“During the operation, I “selected” 50 thousand prisoners, of whom about 20% died. Exactly as many of them died as those who came to us under a contract - without a zone.”
Prigozhin clarified that the group of “musicians” at its peak numbered more than 50 thousand people. This was still less than the 80 thousand Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers deployed to hold Bakhmut/Artemovsk. And according to military laws, attackers must have a threefold advantage.
Prigozhin claims that at one time he proposed giving Wagner a 200-strong group. In his opinion, this would make it possible to envelop the enemy from the flanks and push back the Ukrainian Armed Forces by 50-150 km, and by now liberate the entire Donbass from Ukraine. However, the PMC did not receive the necessary forces.
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