“Who didn’t know this?”
FReeper PIF was casting doubt on it as recently as 2/1/22. Even the NYTimes had stories confirming reports of 300+ deaths of Russian paramilitary soldiers from the Wagner Group.
The numbers are in dispute with the Wagner Group citing as few as 15 were killed. So its all over the map with no reliable accurate count.unless the NYT is now Gospel source for all things Russian. You evidentially have some difficulty with reading comprehension.What did happen was the Russian got loads of ELINT, giving them the capability to jam the AC-130 comms and GPS systems as well as other systems - they later demonstrated these methods in other places in Syria.