Military analysts say Russia is exhibiting poor operational discipline in Ukraine, including the failure to shut down cellphone use
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Mourners gathered in Samara, Russia, to remember the 63 Russian troops killed in the strike against the vocational facility in eastern Ukraine.As Russia has moved up newly mobilized forces in large numbers to shore up its defenses, Ukraine appears to have shifted the focus of some of its artillery targeting.
During the summer, Ukrainian troops used newly deployed Himars mobile rocket launchers from the U.S. to destroy Russian ammunition depots and command centers in occupied Ukrainian territory. Because of Russia’s reliance on rail transportation, most of its logistical centers were based near significant rail junctions or termination points, with little effort made to hide them. That lack of camouflage eased Ukrainian targeting.
Since the war’s earliest days, Ukrainian soldiers and civilians who have encountered Russian troops have remarked about how disorganized, slovenly and ill-disciplined they seem, both in combat and noncombat operations such as maintaining a camp. Some elements of this are likely a deliberate effort to instill fear among Ukrainians, but much comes from the highest levels, say Western officers and analysts who have studied Moscow’s military forces back through Soviet and czarist times.
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