Russia continues to suffer insane losses in the war against Ukraine. So he is already thinking about where to get new fighters. Prigozhin is convinced that he will recruit millions of Americans.
According to him, Wagner PMCs can recruit “10 million Americans.” Analysts from the Institute for the Study of War commented on this absurd statement.
The Americans seem to have already applied
During a conversation with journalists, Yevgeny Prigozhin said on February 9 that no longer recruits prisoners to PMC “Wagner”.Like, this process is “completely stopped.” In addition, he added that now “all obligations” in relation to existing mercenaries are being fulfilled.
But these words are nonsense compared to another absurd statement by Prigozhin. He convinces that more than 10 million Americans have already applied to Wagner PMC.Even if we assume that all prisoners in the United States want to become “cannon fodder”, this number is not enough. There are about 2.1 million of them. It will not be enough even if we add to this number all the Russian-speakers in the country, and they number about 4-4.5 million people.
Analysts from the Institute noted that Prigozhin will probably continue to recruit prisoners. It just won't do it as actively. The compilers of the report recalled that about the slowdown in the recruitment rate in PMC “Wagner” among prisonersthey told before. Then they referred to the statistics of the Federal Service for the Execution of Punishment. It shows that the situation with the reduction in the number of prisoners in Russia stabilized between November 2022 and January 2023.
And there is nothing surprising here. In Russia, they continue to work to ensure that regular troops replace the Wagnerites where they died in packs every day. Thus, the above military leadership seeks to move away from dependence on the Wagner PMC.
Enemy losses are striking
- We did not just note that The enemy is taking heavy losses. As of the morning of February 9, the General Staff reported 135,010 Russian invaders who went to the “Kobzon concert”.
- But that's not all. Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, 3,255 tanks, 6,468 armored fighting vehicles, 2,244 artillery systems, 463 MLRS, 232 air defense systems have been turned into scrap metal.
- In addition, 295 aircraft, 285 helicopters, 1,967 operational-tactical UAVs, 796 cruise missiles, 18 ships, 5,121 vehicles and tankers, and 211 smaller pieces of special equipment.
