Thousands of dead Wagner soldiers: Prigozhin army cemeteries discovered

Numerous mercenaries from the Wagner Group die in the Ukraine War.

In the meantime, seven cemeteries belonging to the troops have been discovered.

Moscow - The numbers are frightening.

In the meantime, more than 30,000 mercenaries from the Wagner group are said to have fallen in the Ukraine war.

This emerges from an assessment by Mikhail Podolyak, adviser to the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, which he made in mid-January.

Officials from the United States also assumed that 30,000 mercenaries were killed and injured in February, according to the

news channel .

The head of the Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, said in an interview on Saturday (April 29) according to the

: "Every day we have thousands of corpses that we pack in the coffin and send home."

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A tomb in Saint-Petersburg decorated with a flag of the Wagner group.

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In the meantime, against the background of the probably high losses in the Ukraine war, more and more graves of the Wagner troops are being discovered.

So far, seven of these cemeteries have been found.

Graves of the Wagner group: Prigozhin's dead lie scattered over 6,000 kilometers

The burial sites found so far are sometimes very far apart.

Two of them are almost 6,000 kilometers apart, according to research by the

.

• List of Wagner cemeteries found so far:

• Bakinskaya, Russia: 607 graves

• Novosibirsk, Russia: Over 200 graves

• Beryozovsky, Russia: 106 graves

• Nikolayeka, Russia: 102 graves

• Irkutsk, Russia: 53 graves

• Luhansk, Ukraine: 42 graves

• Mavrino, Russia: 27 graves

• Source:

  Moscow Times

In total, just over 1,100 graves of Wagner mercenaries have been discovered so far.

However, this number is still a long way from the estimated tens of thousands of deaths.

, the number of known Wagner Group cemeteries is likely to increase rapidly in the coming months .

Convicts buried: Often the family does not know about their death

The graves of Wagner mercenaries are often easy to spot, as the resting places are decorated not only with the Russian flag, but also with the red and yellow colors of the Wagner group.

Where soldiers are buried is entirely arbitrary.

Olga Romanova, the head of the prisoner rights group Russia behind bars, told The Moscow Times

Many of the mercenaries buried in the cemeteries were previously recruited from prisons and detention camps.

For example, in the city of Irkutsk, 43 of those buried there (53) are ex-convicts.

This is what the

writes , citing the independent news agency

.

Not notifying the families of the dead of their deaths was partly a condition of their recruitment, Olga Romanova told The

.

An employee of the Beryozovsky cemetery confirmed to local news site

that none of the mercenaries buried there were local.

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Money for the family: death of a mercenary costs Prigozhin five million rubles

The family of a killed fighter will get 5 million rubles from the Wagner group, Romanova told the

.

This corresponds to the equivalent of around 55,854 euros (as of April 30).

Mercenaries from the Wagner group are said to have even dismembered a commander so that compensation would not have to be paid to the family.

A related video read in the description: "No body, no compensation".

(Lucas Maier)

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