Out of approximately 50,000 soldiers “10,000 are fighting at the front”, Ms Romanova predicted.
She said the remaining 40,000 soldiers are “either killed…or missing, or deserted, or surrendered”.
Wagner troops make up a portion of Russia’s presence in Ukraine, with other conscripts entering the country’s national army.
Putin’s “partial mobilisation” order in September last year allowed the government to draft thousands of soldiers from the general population.
