Russia s Wagner Troops Exhaust Ukrainian Forces in Bakhmut – WSJ

Corpses, corpses, corpses one atop another, said Oleksiy, a soldier with Ukraine s Third Storm Brigade who watched the footage and coordinated the response. And now, look, these brave lads have come out our way.

They don t even have their body armor on, he shouted to a fellow trooper operating an American-made MK-19 grenade launcher above the staccato exchange of machine-gun fire. One of the bullets whizzed overhead. Let s hit them now.

With a series of clinks, a volley of grenades flew to the Russian trench. Done, said Oleksiy.

These Wagner men, too, joined a long list of casualties that the group, which now relies mostly on convicts recruited in Russian prisons, has incurred in the monthslong battle for Bakhmut.

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