Prigozhin also claimed Wagner recruits about 500 to 800 people on average per day, sometimes up to 1,200 people per day. Battle for Bakhmut grinds down Wagner's mercenaries and cuts their notorious leader down to size Although Wagner made incremental gains around Bakhmut and now holds the eastern part of the city, this came at huge costs. The report, dated December 2022, concluded that “the deaths of thousands of Wagner soldiers do not matter to Russian society