During the assaults on Bakhmut, the Wagner PMC lost at least 19,547 fighters killed, of whom over 17,000 were prisoners, according to a joint investigation by Mediazona and the BBC Russian Service. The agencies obtained access to a database of Wagner PMC mercenaries killed between January 2022 and August 2023. Most of the Wagner fighters—19,547 individuals—were killed during the months-long battles for Bakhmut. Of these, 17,175 were prisoners, and the rest were voluntary mercenaries. The investigation indicates that the list is missing a little more than a thousand names (6% of all Wagner figh…