Ukraine announced the destruction of a large unit of Wagner mercenaries in Donbass

Pravda quoted a source from the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) as saying that it had intercepted a sensitive phone call between Russian officers. The content of the call talked about how after an elite Russian unit (was Wagner fighters) was destroyed by the Ukrainian army, some Russian soldiers were wavering, not knowing whether to fight or not. are not.

Information from the phone call said that the elite Wagner warrior unit was destroyed on May 27.

“A lot of Wagner fighters were deployed there. But they all died there. This is a special force but they all die,” Pravda quoted the text of the Russian force’s phone call that the SBU intercepted. Okay.

Earlier, Ukraine’s Security Service also announced that it had intercepted phone calls between Russian commanders, in which they complained about subordinates’ refusal to carry out orders to attack.

However, this is one-way information released by the Ukrainian side and cannot be independently verified. Moscow has not yet commented on this information.

The Guardian in April quoted an unnamed European official as saying that Russia was deploying between 10,000 and 20,000 Syrian, Libyan and Wagner mercenaries in the Donbass.

According to The Guardian, the European official said that it is difficult to give an exact number of mercenaries from each country that are in the Donbass fighting alongside Russian forces, but noted that they are all hired. by the private military company Wagner Group,

The Wagner group, accused of having close ties to the Kremlin, is believed to have assisted Moscow in transporting foreign mercenaries to Ukraine. However, the Kremlin has repeatedly denied having ties to Wagner

Kiev also accused Wagner mercenaries of carrying out numerous assassination attempts on President Zelensky and other high-ranking Ukrainian officials since the beginning of the conflict.