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The corpses of the Wagner mercenaries are piled up in this cemetery
The Wagner squad acts unscrupulously. They are now paying the price for their brutal actions: as satellite images show, the cemeteries have to be enlarged. Of 50,000 Wagner mercenaries, only 10,000 are still fighting at the front.
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In Bakinskaya, southwestern Russia, a graveyard of Wagner mercenaries is rapidly expanding.
Putin’s shadow army, the Wagner Troupe, is known for its brutality. Unscrupulous and cold-blooded action is taken not only against their enemies, but also within their own ranks. The conditions within the troops are cruel. Those who disobey orders pay with their lives.
The losses of Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigoschin (61) are correspondingly large. Reports of fallen Wagner mercenaries have been appearing again and again over the past few months. But the losses never end. And they appear to be larger than previously assumed.
Satellite images from the US company Maxar Technologies now show how the cemeteries with Wagner mercenaries have expanded rapidly. This is reported by the “Spiegel”.
Only a fifth of the Wagner mercenaries left
For example, the one in Bakinskaya, a village not far from Sochi in south-western Russia. While a piece of meadow could still be seen here in November, the entire area is now covered with graves.
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The figures for the fallen soldiers are shocking: According to the British secret service, only a fifth of the 50,000 Wagner mercenaries deployed are said to have remained, citing the human rights organization “Russia behind bars”. All others are dead, missing or deserted.
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According to reporters from the Reuters news agency, the site is now completely fenced off and under video surveillance.
Cemetery overcrowded after a few weeks
Wagner boss Prigozhin commented on the graves in Bakinskaya to the Russian state agency RIA Novosti in early January. Originally, these mercenaries should have been buried in the Wagner chapel in nearby Goryachi Klyuch.
However, since this would be fully occupied, the property in Bakinskaya was switched to. Prigozhin would probably never have dreamed that just a few weeks later the cemetery was already bursting at the seams. (dzc)