28% of the Wagner Group's force sent to Ukraine was killed, according to a group official.
A Wagner Group official identified as Marx said that 78,000 fighters went to Ukraine with the mercenary group, and 22,000 were killed, according to Telegram channel Razgruzka Vagnera.
That means the Wagner Group had 62,000 casualties in total, according to the official's figures.
The UK defense ministry on Friday also pointed to huge losses of Russian prisoners fighting in Ukraine.
While the Wagner Group is not the only group that recruited prisoners for Ukraine, it was the most prolific group to do so.
Persons:
Wagner, Marx, Yevgeny Prigozhin's, Razgruzka Vagnrea, Yevgeny Prigozhin, Prigozhin, Putin
Organizations:
Kremlin, Service, Group, Moscow Times, Wagner Group, Wagner
Locations:
Ukraine, Wall, Silicon, Russia, Bakhmut, Russian, Moscow, Africa