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Nicholas Cecil

Putin’s Wagner Group ‘private army’ has been badly damaged in battle for Bakhmut, its chief admits

The head of Vladimir Putin’s “private army” admitted on Wednesday that his mercenary force had been badly damaged in fierce battles for the eastern town of Bakhmut.

Yevgeny Prigozhin, chief of the Wagner Group, accepted his troops, many of which have been recruited straight from Russian jails, have suffered heavy casualties.

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