Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, reported that 100,000 fighters on each side had been killed or wounded since the war began in February 2022. The claims could not be independently verified. Prigozhin that recruited heavily from Russian prisons to bolster its ranks and carry out a brutal campaign around the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut. About half of those were mercenaries for the Wagner group, the paramilitary force founded by Yevgeny V. John Kirby, a spokesman for the National Security Council, said the figure included 20,000 Russian fighters who had been killed in action. Lynsey Addario for The New York TimesĪt least 100,000 Russian fighters have been killed or wounded in Ukraine in just the past five months, the White House said on Monday, offering the latest estimate of the vast human toll of President Vladimir V. An abandoned Russian tank in the forest in the village of Ruski Tyshky, north of Kharkiv, Ukraine, in January.
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