Around half of the 20,000 Wagner fighters to have died in Bakhmut were convicts, Mr Prigozhin said this week. Earlier this month, the US said it believed more than 20,000 Russian soldiers had been ...

Troops from the regular Russian military are also fighting in Bakhmut, as well as the Wagner troops. Thousands of Russian and Ukrainian soldiers have died in the fight for control of the city ...

The ABC has spoken to a former Wagner soldier who fought in Ukraine ... The former inmate said he participated in battles in and around Bakhmut — a city in eastern Ukraine which, after months ...

A Ukrainian soldier who recently had a run-in with a group of Wagner mercenaries said the fighters "didn't stop coming" during a battle in Bakhmut, Ukraine. "We were fighting for about 10 hours in ...

A Ukrainian soldier loads the bodies of killed Ukrainian servicemen into a van near Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky) Source: AP / Efrem Lukatsky/AP ...

On a sweltering day in June, soldiers from Ukraine's 47th Assault Regiment went into battle against advancing Russian forces in Bakhmut ... military contractor the Wagner Group at the forefront ...

private mercenaries from Russia's Wagner Group plus troops from the separatist Donetsk People's Republic have been slowly battling their way toward the city of Bakhmut, in Donetsk province ...

often using dead Wagner soldiers as set pieces. He even wielded his Wagner forces as blackmail, repeatedly threatening to pull his troops from the Bakhmut front lines. When the city finally fell ...

The attritional war in Bakhmut seems to be having little effect on Wagner’s appeal. British officials “estimate that the number of soldiers under Wagner’s control has ballooned from about ...

Soldiers could be executed on the spot for ... strategic and symbolic battlefield victory for Putin since Bakhmut. Under Wagner, new prison fighters were given a fortnight of military training ...

Russian soldier Ruslan Anitin was one of the last fighters alive in his unit on the front lines of Bakhmut after Ukrainian drones dropped explosives on his comrades. Battlefield footage shows how ...

That changed when the long-time Kremlin ally finally admitted in 2022 he had founded the Wagner group and began a mass recruitment drive at Russia’s prisons for foot soldiers to fight in ...