Russian President Vladimir Putin may be seeing serious dissension in his military's ranks, if reports about officer insubordination and low troop morale in Ukraine are any indication. Read more:
On Monday, a senior official from the U.S. Defense Department said the agency had received anecdotal reports about officers in Russia's military refusing to follow orders in Ukraine. The statement came after numerous reports have surfaced since the beginning of the war about Russia's forces suffering from low morale.
The Pentagon official said the reports, which could not be independently confirmed, concerned officers in midgrade positions, including some at the battalion level. The claim about officers disobeying orders followed numerous reports like the one from a March 1official who said entire Russian units had laid down their weapons rather than fight Ukraine's forces. Some Russian troops had even sabotaged their own vehicles, according to the official.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is seeing low morale and even dissension in his military ranks as a result of the Ukraine war, according to recent reports. Above, Putin speaks before the Council of Lawmakers on April 27 in St. Petersburg.he has not seen any evidence to suggest a widespread rebellion among Putin's troops, he noted it is"possible that there are mutinous movements within the Russian army and not all of them on the lower levels.
reported on May 4 that the U.S. intelligence community had provided information to Ukraine that helped it
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