had interested the mission to prigozhin over them. prigozhin sent his convicts into battle like cannon falls are. and anyone who tried to retreat was shot. >> in a war of attrition, it is all about who can outlast the other in terms of capabilities. and so the russians were willing to feed people like that into this meat grinder. >> prigozhin use the prisoners that he conducted, to have human waves pushed into bakhmut, and they were slaughtered by the thousands. >> but the savage strategy was working. wagner was making advances in bakhmut. [speaking non-english] and leveling the city in the process.