<figure id="attachment_293220" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-293220" style="width: 6000px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="561a698d"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2023/01/aflo_206977667.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-293220" class="wp-caption-text">Founder Prigogine at the burial ceremony for the fallen &#8220;Wagner&#8221; soldiers (Image: AP/Afro)</figcaption></figure>
 About 40,000 &#8220;Wagner&#8221; soldiers who were on the front lines have disappeared.
 On January 23, the independent media outlet Medusa reported that the damage to Russia&#8217;s private military company &#8220;Wagner&#8221; in Ukraine is growing. Of the total 50,000 soldiers, only 10,000 are fighting on the front lines, and the remaining 40,000 have either died, surrendered to the Ukrainian military, or fled.
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 The &#8220;Wagner&#8221; group calls itself a non-elite group and was founded by Prigozhin, a close friend of President Putin&#8217;s. &#8220;The nature of the group is brutal and cruel. The nature of the group is brutal and cruel. Mr. Prigogine personally goes to prisons and recruits thugs who have committed murder and rape as soldiers. They join &#8220;Wagner&#8221; under a contract of about six months. When some of the thugs returned from the front lines this past January, Wagner released a video of them shaking hands with a senior officer.
 The executive congratulates the thugs, saying, &#8220;You guys have been on adrenaline for six months. You guys have been on adrenaline for six months, so you won&#8217;t have an incident for a month. Don&#8217;t drink too much. Don&#8217;t use drugs. No more rapes. On the other hand, he is also brutally punishing fugitives by amputating their private parts to make an example of them.
<h2> (A reporter from the international section of a national newspaper) &#8220;Commanders who keep making blunders are to be sent to the front naked.</h2>
 Russia does not recognize mercenaries. The &#8220;Wagner&#8221; is an illegal group, but it is said to have achieved spectacular results, including the one-time seizure of Soredal in eastern Ukraine, through torture, massacres, and other cruel methods that regular troops are not capable of. As the reserves mobilized at the end of last year continued to lose ground, the group&#8217;s presence within Russia was said to have increased.
 Prigozhin criticizes the Russian authorities&#8217; cadres for &#8216;continuing to live comfortable lives and their children never being mobilized for the army.&#8217; On the other hand, he praises the thugs as &#8216;conscientious. He continued with his radical remarks, saying, &#8220;Elite commanders who keep blundering should be sent to the front naked.
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 However, it is said that &#8220;Wagner&#8221; has been struggling recently against the Ukrainian army, which is deploying the latest Western weapons one after another. A large number of cemeteries, believed to belong to &#8220;Wagner&#8217;s&#8221; soldiers, have appeared on the front lines. As mentioned at the beginning of this report, 40,000 of the 50,000 soldiers have fled and disappeared.
 Within the Russian army, civil strife is said to have broken out. There is a huge backlash against Mr. Prigogine, who mobilizes prisoners, criticizes the elite, and will stop at nothing to get results. It is said that President Putin, who used to heavily rely on &#8220;Wagner,&#8221; has gradually shifted his emphasis to the regular army due to the continuing struggles. Since the beginning of this year, he has been deploying elite &#8220;paratroopers&#8221; to the front lines in place of &#8220;Wagner.
 However, &#8220;Wagner,&#8221; which takes pride in the fact that it has supported the Russian military up to now, will not remain silent. If they realize that they are being neglected, they may openly oppose the regular army. There is a possibility that the Russian army will split from within and disintegrate.
 Wagner&#8221; has achieved war results through brutal means. Its decline may be a true reflection of the reality of an uncontrolled Russian military.

 AP/Afro

 Russia's private military company "Wagner" is in remarkable decline. At one time, it criticized the military elite by appointing thugs who committed murder and rape. Recently, it has been struggling. The regular army, which has been criticized, is also rebelling against "Wagner. The situation could lead to civil strife.

Fugitives were cut locally and 40,000 soldiers of former thugs disappeared&#8230; Civil strife erupts over Russian &#8220;atrocities committed by private military companies&#8221;.

Fugitives were cut locally and 40,000 soldiers of former thugs disappeared… Civil strife erupts over Russian “atrocities committed by private military companies”.

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