Posted on 11/18/2022 2:18:11 AM PST by dennisw
"The limited number of high-quality roads and railways in this area, particularly connecting Crimea to the mainland, creates potential bottlenecks that could be vulnerable to Ukrainian interdiction efforts that would gradually degrade the Russian ability to continue supplying its grouping in eastern Kherson Oblast and other areas of southern Ukraine,"
Russian troops are turning to alcohol abuse and "self-mutilation" as means to escape the front lines as the Kremlin's military continues to grapple with plummeting morale among soldiers, reported (ISW) think tank.
Hanna Malyar, Ukraine's deputy minister of defense, said in a briefing Thursday that Russian soldiers are showing signs of increased panic after receiving insufficient training for battle in the Russia-Ukraine war, reported ISW.
Malyar said troops have "a significant decrease in the level of morale and psychological state" as a result of Ukraine's recent successful counteroffenses, adding that Ukraine's ministry has observed "mass abuse of alcoholic beverages" leading to "cases of armed conflicts" within the Russian military and moments of "destabilization," according to the think tank.
"In addition, we know of cases of deliberate self-mutilation by representatives of the Russian military and cases of suicide," Malyar said. "This is due to the fact that the morale and psychological level is lowered as much as possible," reported ISW.
The ISW study also indicated that low morale was a growing issue for Russian authorities, adding that some sources have reported Russian troops refusing to continue fighting until they receive sufficient training. The ISW also reported that mobilized Russian personnel were being held in jail cells across the Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts for dissenting from military orders.
Ukraine has had a recent string of successful counteroffensives against Russian President Vladimir Putin's troops, leading to accounts of nearly 10,000 Russian soldiers being killed over a period of two weeks.
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Get drunk, act very gay and shoot of a few toes, might get you sent home.
Or get you shot right then and there. What would morale be like seeing men getting to go home because they’re perverts?
I don’t believe these types of stories anymore. I think they are made up or exaggerated to keep money flowing.
gullible
/sarc>🙄🙄
CC
From MSN? I DO NOT believe that.
‘A Ukrainian soldier filmed artillery strikes by PMC Wagner on Bakhmut’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_URq2Ukf1us
The sad part is that Putin and his corrupt oligarchs don’t care how many Russian (and Buryat and Kalmyk) young men die.
This is now all about how to conserve their grip on power.
Little Putin’s mercenaries.
touchy, touchy
based on the recent sheer screech level of you Russian shills, this war MUST be going very badly for your side
LOL
yet none of you Russian shills can explain why Russia is in retreat
“yet none of you Russian shills can explain why Russia is in retreat”
And unwillingness to own up to all the BS “predictions” made since Feb.
Currently, a video is running around various Twitter and Telegram accounts of Russian POWs being killed.
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