neo-Nazi groups committing atrocities on behalf of the Kremlin." On 13 November 2022, a video was published, showing the Wagner Group executing its ex-fighter Yevgeny Nuzhin for treason, smashing his head with a sledgehammer. On the video, Nuzhin claims that he was captured on the streets of Kyiv by unknown people and brought to a basement, though concerns for validity of his words were raised by Ukrainian news groups. A spokesman to the Ukrainian President's Office claimed Nuzhin had agreed to take part in a prisoner exchange. He previously gave an interview to a Ukrainian journalist where he confirmed that he was recruited in a prison. Prigozhin said that "the show demonstrates that [Nuzhin] didn't find happiness in Ukraine, but met ill, yet just people". He also called this a "great show" and "amazing director work", expressing "hope" that "no animals were harmed in the production". Casualties According to Bellingcat's briefing to British MPs of the Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee on 21 April 2022, close to 3,000 of the 8,000 members of Wagner in Ukraine had been killed. However, according to BBC News Russian, at the that time there were no reliable data on the Wagner Group's losses. A number of Belarusian soldiers who had signed contracts with Russian private military companies had been killed during the invasion. A subsequent US estimate in early August, put the number of Wagner PMCs killed in the invasion at 5,000, while the Ukrainian Center for Analytical Studies and Countering Hybrid Threats (CCHT) NGO reported that by its count between 800 and 1,000 had been killed by early November. In early January 2023, an updated US estimate put the number of Wagner PMC casualties at more than 4,100 killed and 10,000 wounded. Mid-February 2023, an updated US estimate put the number of Wagner PMC casualties at about 30,000 casualties, of which about 9,000 killed. The US estimated that half of those deaths occurred since the middle of December, with 90 percent of Wagner fighters which had been killed since December being convicts. Concurrently, the UK Ministry of Defence estimated that convicts recruited by Wagner had experienced a casualty rate of up to 50 percent. References Wagner Group