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Over 20,000 Wagner troops killed, 40,000 wounded in Ukraine: Prigozhin-linked channel (www.politico.eu)

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mercs are not conscripted

[–] FiskFisk33 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

weren't lots of them prisoners, promised freedom for a few months of "work" ?

then sent in as doomed cannon fodder by wagner.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Is that better? Assuming they committed the crimes they were convicted for they are agreeing to avoid the consequences of immoral acts by agreeing to perform more immoral acts?