More than 20,000 troops died in Bakhmut: Wagner boss

The head of the Russian private army Wagner says his force has lost more than 20,000 fighters in the drawn-out battle for Bakhmut, the eastern Ukrainian city.

The figure is in stark contrast with Moscow’s widely disputed claims that it lost just over 6,000 troops in the war, and is higher than the official estimate of the Soviet losses in the Afghanistan war of 15,000 troops between 1979-89.