Prigozhin told about this in an interview with one of the Russian propagandists.
According to him, the losses of the Wagner PMC in Bakhmut reached 20,000 people, in particular, 10,000 recruited prisoners and the same number of full-time mercenaries.
"10,000 prisoners, out of 50,000 conscripts, and 10,000 full-time soldiers have died there," Prigozhin said.
On May 21, US President Joe Biden announced that Russia had lost more than 100,000 people in the battles for Bakhmut.
On May 23, Serhiy Cherevatyi, the spokesman of the Eastern Group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said that the daily losses of the Russian Federation in Bakhmut reached 200 people killed and wounded.