White House: The Wagner Group Suffered More Than 30,000 Deaths In Ukraine

The White House said on Friday that Russia's private military group, Wagner, has suffered more than 30,000 deaths since Russia's invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, with nearly 9,000 of those fighters killed in combat.

US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said that the United States estimates that 90 percent of the Wagner Group members who have died in Ukraine since December are convicted, prisoners.

He added, " the Wagner Group had made incremental gains around Bakhmut over the past few days, but those gains took several months to achieve and came at a devastating and unsustainable cost."

It is possible that they will end up succeeding at Bakhmut, but that will prove to be of no real value because it has no real strategic value," he said.