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3,000 of Russia’s feared Wagner mercenaries have already been killed in Ukraine after 8,000 were sent in to boost Putin’s flagging invasion, British MPs are told
Daily Mail ^ | 4/20/2022 | Chris Jewers

Posted on 04/20/2022 1:13:32 PM PDT by marcusmaximus

Nearly 8,000 mercenaries from the notorious Wagner Group have been deployed by Russia in Ukraine to boost Vladimir Putin's flagging invasion, but have suffered heavy casualties, British MPs have been told.

Giving evidence to the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee, Christo Grozev, executive director of the Bellingcat investigative website, said 3,000 members of the private military company (PMC) were thought to have been killed on the battlefield.

The shadowy group - which has been linked to a string of killings, rapes and war crimes around the world - is known as Putin's private army which carries out his dirty work at an arm's length from the state, while giving him plausible deniability.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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To: marcusmaximus

Daily Mail propaganda war reporting… 🤪🤥🤪🤥🤪🤥🤪🤥🤪🤥🤪🤥🤨🤥🤨🤥🤨🤥🤨🤥🤨🤥


81 posted on 04/20/2022 3:11:57 PM PDT by Bull Man
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To: kiryandil

Your special operation is mass murder.


82 posted on 04/20/2022 3:12:31 PM PDT by rrrod (6)
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To: rrrod
Your special operation is mass murder.

Not my special operation, not my monkeys.

83 posted on 04/20/2022 3:13:25 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: marcusmaximus

Sleens, spleens, exploding spleens everywhere.


84 posted on 04/20/2022 3:14:32 PM PDT by sergeantdave
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To: rrrod
You neocon dupes remind me of Brit football hooligans.

Absolutely rabid over your "team".

It's not your circus and not your monkeys, either.

85 posted on 04/20/2022 3:15:10 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: kiryandil

MNJohnnie has been exactly right and has exposed the cultists here.


86 posted on 04/20/2022 3:16:17 PM PDT by rrrod (6)
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To: rrrod
Be sure you wear a raincoat or plastic sheet so's you don't get any spittle on you.

The dude has pinwheels-for-eyes.

87 posted on 04/20/2022 3:17:40 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: marcusmaximus

Who knows what the truth really is.

But if this is only half true, it gives me a warm feeling in my heart.


88 posted on 04/20/2022 3:23:35 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: marcusmaximus

Who knows what the truth really is.

But if this is only half true, it gives me a warm feeling in my heart.


89 posted on 04/20/2022 3:23:41 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: PIF

‘... there is lots of info...”

There are even satellite images on google of locations of some of the camps. But since these groups don’t fall under any recognized international description and are on a cash basis, switching sides for a perceived battle or two is not beyond their needs and they are generally sortie groups doing one thing at a time rather than an organized operation doing an advancement. Hit and run. And unfortunately with the thousands out there and the lack of coordination between all the groups of combatants, accidents, and sometimes on purposes, happen. Oops situations.

The Wagner Group, which started this thread, is not registered as a legal entity anywhere in the world. These mercenaries are even illegal under Russian law. Putin makes no claim to them if they are killed or captured and they don’t wear a patch. They are said to have offices in Saint Petersburg, Argentina, and Hong Kong. The company trains its personnel at a Russian MoD facility, Molkino, near the remote village of Molkin, Krasnodar Krai and the Russian government doesn’t claim them, but they supply them with such things as training locations, passports, and logistics. After joining they become spooks and no one knows who or where they are as all communications devices are taken away from them and issued when need arises. They came from the old Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU),
the 700th Independent Spetsnaz Detachment of the 2nd Independent Brigade and were first active in 2014. Two other groups like them are the Moran Security Group and the Hong Kong-based Slavonic Corps. They all operate about the same way. They are compared to the US organization Academi, the American security firm formerly known as Blackwater.

wy69


90 posted on 04/20/2022 3:28:20 PM PDT by whitney69
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To: NorseViking

“...nothing stops it from treating them as mercs.”

Or criminals. Either one in that type of atmosphere is shot on site anyway.

wy69


91 posted on 04/20/2022 3:30:15 PM PDT by whitney69
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To: kiryandil

I, like most, feel that mass murder is a crime. Your boy Putin will face judgement.


92 posted on 04/20/2022 3:39:41 PM PDT by rrrod (6)
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To: MNJohnnie

Such a smart insult, you had to say it twice.


93 posted on 04/20/2022 3:41:43 PM PDT by Fido969 (45 is Superman!)
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To: Pox

they are getting jacked up at the same rate as the rest of the Russian forces, if not more so.

Good news then!


94 posted on 04/20/2022 3:42:42 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: rrrod
War usually involves mass death. Calling it murder doesn't make it so.

picture

click on the pic for the latest from Ukraine commander Serhiy Volyna in Mariupol.

95 posted on 04/20/2022 3:57:35 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Petrosius

From what I have deduced, the term “Nazi” is being equated to patriot. Those who love their country and willing to give their lives defending it are being called “Nazi” by those who want to denigrate Ukraine. Frankly, I admire the Ukrainian grit in taking on one of the strongest and fiercest armies on the globe.


96 posted on 04/20/2022 4:01:21 PM PDT by elpadre (W)
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To: kiryandil
You neocon dupes remind me of Brit football hooligans.

They're a passionate bunch...


97 posted on 04/20/2022 4:02:02 PM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera )
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To: elpadre

Ping!


98 posted on 04/20/2022 4:03:43 PM PDT by kenmcg (tHE WHOLE )
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To: EEGator

I’m not surprised there are Ukrainian Nazi’s fighting for Ukraine. The Ukrainians were good Nazi’s who had no problem exterminating Jews for Hitler. The current Nazi’s are following in their grandfather’s and great grandfather’s footsteps.


99 posted on 04/20/2022 4:23:21 PM PDT by Rdct29 (Democrats are the new Nazi's. They think they deserve total control over the people)
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To: kiryandil

Ok, I’ve heard of a one-town whore but never a one-tank whore. I guess it’s a cultural thing.


100 posted on 04/20/2022 4:37:19 PM PDT by Justa (If where you came from is so great then why aren't Floridians moving there?)
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