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“As many as 32,000 former prisoners have returned home after their contracts with Russian mercenary group Wagner expired”

“In January Mykhailo Podolyak, an advisor to (Ukraine) Presidential Office head Andriy Yermak, said that nearly 80% of Russian prisoners recruited by Wagner had been killed, injured, or captured by Ukraine.”

So, let’s see - that’s 32,000 making it back to Russia safely, and 4 times that number, 128,000 being killed, injured, or captured by Ukraine. That makes 160,000 Wagners, all in Bakhmut (since we didn’t hear about them anywhere else).

Dudes must have been tripping over each other, left and right.

Yep, more great reporting out of Ukraine!

Maybe Ukraine should concentrate on the number of men they lost in the war . They guard those numbers as tight as Zelensky’s bank accounts. How many Ukrainian soldiers gave their lives for their global masters so far? I've never seen a population more manipulated by the global scumbags and their lying propagandist. George Soros, the corrupt state department, Claus Schlob, Biden, Clintons, all the media and the list goes on and on. All blood sucking lowlifes who want to enslave us all. But their intentions in Ukraine are noble. Sure they are. They are working to destroy freedom everywhere else but not Ukraine. They love the Ukrainian people and they are only there to help them.

This is a Russian report. Go take it up with them.

This does not say whether some of those 32,000 includes those that have been evacuated due to wounds or sickness. I would assume that many have been if this a complete accounting of returned personnel.

If that’s so, and we assume that 32,000 consists of 50% evacuated casualties, then the total number of Wagner recruited prisoners was 80,000. Over a period of @9 months of constantly feeding in replacements and evacuating casualties in a Corps-size unit this is plausible. Similar wastage rates and replacement rates happened for US Army divisions in the ETO. The death/capture number would then be 48,000.

If 24,000 out of 32,000 are evacuated casualties then the total Wagner number is 40,000, with 8,000 dead. That yields a 3:1 ratio of wounded to dead, which is in line with military experience.

So it’s probable that the 32,000 include a large part of the 80%. Or perhaps the 80% is overstated. Or the 32,000 is overstated. Or understated. Who knows. Its a data point.