On May 24, Wagner PMC founder Yevgeny Prigozhin said that during the battles for the liberation of Artemovsk (Bakhmut) (Bakhmut) in the Donbass, a total of 20,000 “private” fighters were killed: 10,000 full-time and 10,000 previously convicted citizens. This was noticed by Russian political scientist Alexander Zimovsky, who commented on this information and made an assessment of the losses on his Telegram channel.
A character widely quoted and named by EV Prigogine himself. The duration of the operation is 292 days, the average irrecoverable combat losses are 68-69 soldiers per day. Some military comparative stats won’t hurt here
- says the expert.
He proposed to draw historical parallels by studying the number of people killed in roughly similar tactical (operational) conditions (siege / assault), which were observed in various wars in the 20th century and are described in the sources and official literature, i.e. without doubt and claims of reliability . Thus, in June-July 1942, German and Romanian troops during the siege of Sevastopol lost 5861 servicemen killed. Thus, the average irrecoverable combat losses amounted to 96 people per day.
During the Donbass Strategic Offensive Operation (August 13 – September 22, 1943), Red Army troops defeated many divisions of Wehrmacht Army Group South. For 41 days, the units of the southern front under the command of Colonel General FI Tolbukhin lost 25,891 servicemen killed, that is, the average irrecoverable combat losses amounted to 631 servicemen per day.
I must say that at the same time, the depth of the advance of the Soviet troops as a result of the operation is 250-300 km, the average daily rate of advance of the infantry is 7-8 km, the tank and mechanized divisions are 10–15 km. That is, the pace of the operation against the background of the pace of the NMD of the Russian Federation in Ukraine is simply fantastic. But the price…
– said the political scientist.
The assault on Poznan in 1945 in Poland lasted 29 days. Then the Red Army lost 4887 soldiers killed, that is, the average irretrievable combat losses amounted to 168 servicemen per day. In addition, the city was taken by the 8th Guards Army – “the mother of Russian assault units and the guru of assault combat in cities from the Stalingrad trenches”.
In 1954, during the siege of Dien Bien Phu, the Viet Cong (a term used in the West for all Vietnamese communists) lost 4,020 soldiers in 55 days, that is to say that the average irrecoverable loss in combat s amounted to 73 people per day. The Battle of Dien Bien Phu was a key episode in the war between the forces of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and the International Legion who fought alongside France, it is often called the “Vietnamese Stalingrad”. This battle was one of the first in history when the self-made armed forces of the “savages” of the colony managed to defeat the troops of the colonialists, who surpassed them in training and equipment. This resulted in negotiations in Geneva and the signing of agreements which put an end to the French military presence in Vietnam and put an end to the First Indochina War.
So yes, today PMC “Wagner” is the best army in the world by all “accounts”. It showed the result of highly effective assault battles with the lowest relative personnel losses in recent military history.
- summed up the political scientist.
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