30,000 Russia’s Wagner fighters died in Ukraine conflict, claims US | Top factors

The US has claimed that 30,000 Wagner fighters have died within the Ukraine conflict as Ukrainian troopers, combating within the japanese metropolis of Bakhmut, pleaded for extra weapons to counter Russian assaults.

New Delhi,UPDATED: Feb 18, 2023 15:10 IST

Graves of Russian Wagner mercenary group fighters are seen in a cemetery close to the village of Bakinskaya in Krasnodar area, Russia. (Photo: Reuters)

By India Today Web Desk: Another Saturday, one other air raid alert, one other missile strike on Ukraine. Two explosions have been heard this morning within the metropolis of Khmelnytskyi, 274 km west of Kyiv, with authorities limiting electrical energy provide as a precaution for potential strikes on the grid.

Russia, which invaded its neighbour almost a yr in the past, has been concentrating on Ukraine’s power networks with a wave of missiles since final October.

But because the battle raged on, Ukrainian troopers combating within the japanese metropolis of Bakhmut pleaded for extra weapons as Western powers gathered on the three-day Munich Security Conference.

Here are the newest developments because the Russia-Ukraine War enters Day 360.

Give us extra army tools, extra weapons, and we’ll cope with the Russian occupier, we’ll destroy them, mentioned a soldier standing within the snow close to Bakhmut, echoing a plea by his president Volodymyr Zelenskyy to the Munich convention.

Zelenskyy on Friday referred to as for allies on the Munich assembly to hurry up sending weapons and gained speedy assist from German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French President Emmanuel Macron. At final yr’s Munich gathering, the West had urged Vladimir Putin to not invade and warned of dire penalties if he did. This yr, they’re grappling with the implications of that.

Zelenskyy has additionally mentioned it’s apparent that Ukraine wouldn’t be the final cease on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion record.

Ukraine needs extra weapons to launch an efficient spring counteroffensive and to defend in opposition to Russian assaults within the east.

Russia, whose present focus is on Bakhmut, has now accused the West of dedication to destroy Russia, days after accusing the US of now being straight concerned within the conflict.

Russia’s UN Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia mentioned, “We had no selection aside from to defend our nation — defend it from you, to defend our id and our future.”

Meanwhile, the US has claimed that the Russian mercenary firm Wagner Group, which is on the forefront of the Bakhmut battle, has suffered greater than 30,000 casualties. The US estimates that 90% of Wagner group troopers killed in Ukraine since December have been convicts.

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Feb 18, 2023