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Ksenia Sobchak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ksenia_Sobchak is participating in the Russian presidential election.

She has a site https://mbk.sobchakprotivvseh.ru/ and today it was an interesting article there about a dead member of Wagner:

The participant in the battle says that the “storm squads” of the Wagnerites “(who sometimes were called mercenaries in the circle of mercenaries) were not companies in the general military sense of the word: the number of each detachment was not 121 people, like the company of the charter, but 350. Support for these assault teams was provided armored group with Soviet-made T-72 tanks and artillery with 122 mm M-30 howitzer of the 1938 model. Also the attacking group had BRDM (armored reconnaissance and sentinel machines armed with machine guns) and antiaircraft installations on a truck.

Interrogated Polynkovym soldier spoke about the incredible power of American artillery fire and bombardment, as well as about the highest accuracy of hits: on his eyes the missile directly hit destroyed BRDM with everyone who was inside the car and on the armor. According to the estimates of this source, only more than two hundred people were killed in his detachment.

https://mbk.sobchakprotivvseh.ru/suzhet/brat-pogibshego-bojca/

and this from a speech by Lev Shlosberg, Yabloko, is from 27 Feb:
Twenty days ago, on February 7, near the small Syrian city of Darezor one of the units of these unofficial armed forces of Russia fell under the fire of the US armed forces. And in the column, where there were about 600 people, according to retired officers, in particular Victor Alksnis, at least 334 people were killed. At the same time, the Ministry of Defense officially stated that among the dead there are no servicemen of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

When the press secretary of the Russian president, Dmitry Peskov, was asked whether the national mourning would be declared in connection with the mass death of Russian servicemen, he replied: “I did not understand the topic. In this connection, mourning should be declared? “.

Meanwhile, judging by the information leaked to the journalistic studies and the veterans of the armed forces, the soldiers of the reconnaissance battalion of the GRU special forces are among the dead, this military unit 92 154, according to Alksnis, and the military unit 43 292, is the special purpose headquarters. That is, the so-called private military company Wagner, which certainly does not exist and can not exist under Russian law. This is an illegal armed formation. It is at least partially formed of servicemen of the armed forces of the Russian Federation.

In connection with all that is happening, it must be recalled that in the Russian budget 17% of expenditures are classified. Only indirectly, this is data on the cost of weapons, which are involved in military operations in Syria formally, Russia spent more than 4 years in Syria for almost 4 billion dollars. This is about 250 billion rubles. This is 10 annual budgets of the Pskov region.

https://mbk.sobchakprotivvseh.ru/region/lev-shlosberg-nelzya-nadev/