30,000 Wagner Group fighters have been killed or injured in Putin's invasion of Ukraine, says White House spokesman

Sat, 02/18/2023 - 08:48

Wagner Group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin in military gear with several others, whose faces have been blurred, in what Russian state media described as the salt mines of Soledar, eastern Ukraine, on January 10 2022. — Wagner Group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin in what Russian state media described as the salt mines of Soledar, eastern Ukraine, on January 10 2022.
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More than 30,000 Wagner Group fighters have been killed or injured, according to US officials.
John Kirby said that half of the Wagner fighters who perished in the war have died since mid-December.
Kirby said that the Wagner Group are "treating their recruits as cannon fodder."

More than 30,000 fighters from the Wagner Group, often regarded as Putin's de facto private army, have been killed or injured since the invasion of Ukraine began, according to US officials.