Low Morale & Faulty Leadership Sinking Russia’s Military in Ukraine?

Video Above: Russian Convoy “Bogged Down,” Hit With Ukrainian Ambushes, Fuel & Food Shortages, Morale Problems

By Kris Osborn – Warrior Maven

The visible and somewhat obvious morale problem among Russian troops cited in the earliest days of the country’s invasion of Ukraine, seems to be persisting in a substantial and heavily influential fashion.

Russian Morale Problems

While many specifics, exact numbers and details related to Russian morale problems have not be avail for security reasons or simply inability to verify, Pentagon officials are clear that these problems are not going away.

“We have continued to see unit cohesion issues, command-and-control problems, problems of faulty leadership. And certainly we have continued to see, again, anecdotal evidence of poor morale and poor performance by troops on the battlefield. But, as I’ve said before, it’s anecdotal. We can’t say with certainty that it’s uniformly across all the forces that they have in Ukraine,” a Senior Pentagon official told reporters March 31, according to a DoD transcript.

Morale can of course greatly impact combat performance, something which has struck many observers as somewhat surprisingly poor. Not only did Russia seem unprepared and ill equipped for the kind of mission they were embarking upon, but there have been many anecdotal reports that Russian soldiers simply may not want to fight, and instead actually have no interest in killing Ukrainians. Pentagon officials have also observed significant tactical errors on the part of the Russian forces.

“This is an operation, an armed conflict on the scale that the Russians have not attempted in a very, very, very long time, on multiple lines of axis, with poor coordination between elements in subordinate commands, poor planning for logistics and sustainment,” the senior Pentagon official said.