• Mercenary meatgrinder: The price of Bakhmut

  • Jun 26 2024
  • Length: 1 hr and 2 mins
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Mercenary meatgrinder: The price of Bakhmut

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    Alia is joined by the Russian reporter and photojournalist, David Frenkel, to consider the staggering toll of the “Bakhmut meatgrinder”– Russia’s bloodiest battle since the Second World War. They talk through his latest report from independent Russian news platform Mediazona and the BBC Russian Service, “The Price of Bakhmut”, and David’s methodology for determining which prisoners were recruited and from where. David also examines the numbers that were killed, the question marks over whether promised death payments were made, and why the Wagner Group turned to prisons for manpower in the first place.

    “This is a long tradition from Soviet times when inmates were used for building factories and deforestation in Siberia and so basically, they came back to that old idea to use inmates as soldiers.”

    The Guns for Hire podcast is written, produced and hosted by Dr Alia Brahimi.

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