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The United States estimates that Wagner has 50 000 personnel deployed in Ukraine, including 10 000 contractors and 40 000 convicts recruited from Russian prisonsThe United States estimates that Wagner has 50 000 personnel deployed in Ukraine, including 10 000 contractors and 40 000 convicts recruited from Russian prisons

Last month, North Korea delivered infantry rockets and missiles into Russia for use by Wagner,” he told reporters.The Wagner Group was founded in 2014 after Russia seized and annexed Ukraine’s Crimea peninsula and sparked a separatist insurgency in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region. “Everyone knows that North Korea has not been supplying any weapons to Russia for a long time. And no such efforts have even been made,” he said in a statement.The US assessment is that the amount of material delivered by North Korea will not change the battlefield dynamics but more military equipment is expected to be delivered by Pyongyang.

Kirby said Putin has increasingly turned to the Wagner Group for help in Ukraine, where Russian forces have stumbled. More sanctions are coming in the weeks ahead against the company and its support group in countries around the world, Kirby said. US intelligence indicates Wagner has played a major role in the battle for the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut and has suffered heavy casualties there with about 1 000 Wagner fighters killed in recent weeks, Kirby said.

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