The Russian mercenary organization, the Wagner Group, is leading the Russians' war in the city of Bakhmut in Ukraine, which has resulted in significant numbers of casualties.
Wagner, led by Yevgeny Prigozhin, has roughly 50,000 members deployed to Ukraine, and approximately 40,000 of those are convicts who had been taken from their prisons to the front lines of the war, National Security Council coordinator John Kirby said late last month. Kirby said at the time that they had lost roughly 1,000 soldiers in recent weeks, as about 90% of them were convicts.
“The lads are fighting over every house, sometimes for more than a day,” he told state media RIA Novosti. “Sometimes it takes them weeks to capture a house. They take one house, they take another.” It's"clear that Russia's military took a backseat to the Wagner forces and they began attacking Bakhmut in late May," the official told reporters on Wednesday."And here we are early January. And it's just really a lot of Russian blood spilled there over Bakhmut, specifically with respect to Prigozhin's personal involvement and an intense focus on this."
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