“We were fighting for about 10 hours in a row. And it wasn’t like just waves, it was uninterrupted. So it was just like they didn’t stop coming.”
Disguised in a balaclava, Andriy recounts one seemingly endless firefight when they came under attack by a flood of Wagner fighters. Their AK-47 rifles became so hot from constant firing, Andriy says, that they had to keep changing them. “It was about 20 soldiers on our side. And let’s say 200 from their side,” he says. The Wagner way of war is to send a first wave of attackers that mainly comprises raw recruits straight out of Russian prisons.
According to Ukrainian intercepts, coordination between Wagner and the Russian military is often lacking. CNN reached out to Wagner Group boss Yevgeny Prigozhin this week about allegations of abuse in the company’s ranks. Prigozhin responded in a statement that was largely sarcastic in tone via his press service, calling CNN an “open enemy” before insisting Wagner is an “exemplary military organization that complies with all the necessary laws and rules of modern wars.
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