A leaked Kremlin report reveals a demoralized and suicidal Russian fighting force in Ukraine, highlighting the dire consequences of Putin's war.
Putin cannot even regain the hallowed Russia n ground of Kursk, so easily taken by Ukraine forces and held for nearly two months Last week, the Ukrainian military circulated a secret Kremlin report it captured in the Kursk region, which paints a picture of a demoralised Russia n fighting force.
and appearing to be genuine, details hundreds of conscripts giving up in Kursk without a fight and handing themselves over to Ukrainian forces. It also cites the example of a soldier who killed himself in January this year. He had, the report said, “a nervous and psychological breakdown, caused by his prolonged state of depression due to his service in the Russian army”. Nor does this seem an isolated incident. “The analysis of the current situation regarding suicides shows that the issue of servicemen dying as a result of suicidal incidents remains tense,” the report says. To me, as a professional soldier for nearly 35 years, this shows an army about to implode. A soldier’s morale is 10 times as important as their physical state, which is why Ukraine fights on. These barely trained men are given a couple of days’ training and shoved into the front. They can just about fire their rifles, but probably do not know how to maintain them and hence they will become inoperable in a few weeks; but this is of little concern to their Russian masters. Having emptied the jails and exhausted the ethnic Russians from the far east, the next batch of pressed men will have to come from Moscow and St Petersburg, and this will not be easy for the Kremlin to hide.the Russian regime to withdraw from Afghanistan in the 1980s after 17,000 casualties. No doubt they might do the same when these mothers realise that north of 600,000 Russians have been killed or wounded in Putin’s “special military operation”,will soon be authorised for use in Russia. With the spectacularly successful attack on the Tver weapons depot north of Moscow last week –Russia is teetering on the brink of military collapse and we, Ukraine’s allies, must put the boot in now without further prevarication.The attack on Tver ammo dump has destroyed many North Korean and possibly Iranian ballistic missiles, as well as thousands of drones and glide bombs. This was a site that was supposed to be impenetrable. The loss of 30,000 tonnes of ammunition will be a further significant drain on Russian army resources. Even the Kremlin and its ludicrous propagandists cannot spin the situation for much longer as Russia on the march. Of course, again and again threats of nuclear escalation are coming out of the Kremlin if the West gets more involved. Even the most timid leaders in Nato and Europe now must realise that these threats are bluff and bluster, and The state of the Russian army today is not dissimilar to the state of Napoleon’s army after the Battle of Borodino near Moscow, in the bleak winter of 1812. The French were utterly demoralised, short of ammunition and food. But at least their commanders still had the moral courage to lead their retreat out of Russia, whereas most Russian leaders today are either corrupt, absent, or both, leaving their conscripts to rot and starve on the front line. Putin’s special military operation is reaching, in military terms, its culminating point; in civilian parlance, it has run out of steam. He cannot even regain the hallowed Russian ground of Kursk, so easily taken by Ukraine forces and held for nearly two months. All effort and urgency had gone out of the Russian push in the Donbas, even with the use of illegal chemical weaponsColonel Hamish de Bretton-Gordon OBE is a former commander of UK and Nato CBRN forces
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