in a moment, i m going to speak to the lawyer for that former wagner commander who is now sharing prigozhin and putin s secrets with the world from an undisclosed location. what does he know? i ll have that in just a moment. but he is leaving the battlefield as the most brutal battle in the war is raging in soledar. ukraine s air force claiming it took down a russian fighter jet there this afternoon. i ll walk you through this video. you re looking at what appear to be russians loading a stretcher into a red car. you see them do that. they re going to put that into the car, kind of walk around. they pull the stretcher part out, presumably. the man who was on it is then inside. once they do that, you ll see the car drive away. and the russian soldiers run away very quickly. they re clearly afraid of some sort of a strike. they sort of zig and zag to the right. and go back to the left towards a shelter. they know they re being watched. ukraine has drones over soledar almost 24/7. after
rape any chicks. keep telling yourselves over and over not to end up in the slammer again. okay? i need you to come back to the war. so don t [ bleep ] up. okay? remember your oaths. might need them to come back? the wagner group has been relying on convicts to fight. just listen to this. the washington post has reported that 80% of wagner s fighters are convicts. so, let me give you that number a different way. 40,000 convicts out of an army for that private wagner group of 50,000. and those convicts have been dying fast and furiously. just listen to a wagner commander. as of tonight a former commander. as of tonight because he has now defected and he is now seeking asylum in norway. translator: every week, they sent more prisoners to us. we lost a lot of men. casualties were high. we would lose 15 to 20 men in just our platoon.
so, let me ask you because, of course, part of the reason wagner group has sacrificed so much life on this is because they want to get a victory. so it s a small town and it may be strategically irrelevant. but then they have a victory and they can use that, prigozhin who runs the wagner group can use that to putin to say i should be the guy in charge, i should be the prominent guy as opposed to others in the military industry, including the russian defense secretary sergei shoigu, who is also fighting for power here. we saw shoigu today inspecting russian troops. i m curious, general, we have seen the failures, we ve heard them of the russian military here, of the wagner group. but what are you looking at now to see if shoigu s military is really just going to absolutely cave and crumble? i believe they will eventually cave and crumble. it s becoming more likely day by day. you see shoigu in a very clean environment presenting medals. he has been the guy that s been in charge of r