Satellite photos have revealed a cemetery set aside for killed in action members of Russia’s group of paid mercenaries from Wagner Group show the toll Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is taking on Putin’s private army, NBC News reports.
The photos last autumn showed 17 grave sites at the cemetery, located about 200 miles into Russia from the Ukrainian border. After Wagner Group fighters were used to hold territory at the eastern Ukrainian town of Soledar late last year, the number of graves jumped to at least 120, seven times the number.
Satellite imagery shows the area where the cemetery is located, near the Russia town of Bakinskaya in southwest Russia, containing one of six sections of the area designated for Wagner Group remains filled with bodies. The five other cemetery sites are not occupied, yet.