the town with all their strength. tens of thousands of ukrainian soldiers are fiercely repelling attacks. bloodshed increases every day. wagner mercenaries are the spearhead of the invasion groups. they re making progress but often lack the ammunition to advance. i will say that a system needs to be worked out. i hope that this system will start functioning soon and we will be getting ammunition regularly. reporter: the u.s. and ukraine say the attrition rate among wagner s assault groups, often made up of prisoners recruited from russian jails, is as high as 80%. but prigozhin s media channel is now trying to convey how wagner is actually helping the convicts. in this film, a former inmate thanks the mercenary group. translator: wagner gave me freedom and hope. hope that we have a chance. there are many guys who are ready to give their lives for their motherland and hope that
soldiers are fiercely repelling attacks. bloodshed increases every day. reporter: the mercenaries are the spearhead of russia s invasion force in bakhmut. they claim to make progress but often lack the ammunition to advance. translator: i will say that a system needs to be worked out. i hope that this system will start functioning soon and we will be getting ammunition regularly. reporter: the u.s. and ukraine say the attrition rate among the assault groups often made up of prisoners recruited from russian jails is as high as 80%, but their media channel is trying to convey how vogner is actually helping the conflicts in. this film a former inmate thanks the mercenary group. translator: vogner gave me freedom and hope, hope that we have a chance. there are many guys who are ready to give their lives for their mother land and hope that our society is still not fully rotten. reporter: ukraine says fighters like these are often
as high as 80%. but the media channel is trying to convey how wagner is helping the convicts. in this film, a former inmate thanks the mercenary group. translator: wagner gave me freedom and hope. hope that we have a chance. there are many guys who are ready to give their lives for their motherland and hope that our society is still not fully rotten. reporter: ukraine says fighters like these were often little more than cannon fodder. ukraine s president vowing to hold on, even as the russians say it s only a matter of time before they take bakhmut. translator: russia does not count people at all. sending them to constant assaults on our positions. the intensity of the fighting is only increasing. reporter: and jake, an official from the people s republic, the russian occupied part of ukraine, is claiming even some of ukraine s toughest units in bakhmut are suffering
in her claims that there was election fraud, and it was found that people were allowed to vote and their votes were cast and of course, she continues to lie about that. and governor katie hobbs won that election by 17,000 votes, but lake says she is going to take that fight to the state supreme court. another story, that we are covering this morning, newly revealed text messages that show how some of the biggest names at fox news actually felt about the bogus election fraud claims that they were pushing at the same time that on fox s air. so the messages were revealed in court filings, and this is part of the billion dollar lawsuit against the right wing media channel, and cnn reporter oliver darcy is joining us. these documents of what they are revealing is not surprising to folks in the media and maybe folks in washington, but revealing for a lot of the dedicated viewers.