Some Russian troops are surrendering
or sabotaging vehicles rather than
fighting, a Pentagon official says.
Plagued by poor morale as well as fuel and food shortages... Some entire Russian units have laid down their arms without a fight after confronting a surprisingly stiff Ukrainian defense, the official said. A significant number of the Russian troops are young conscripts who are poorly trained and ill-prepared for the all-out assault. And in some cases, Russian troops have deliberately punched holes in their vehicles’ gas tanks, presumably to avoid combat, the official said.
Jennifer Griffin was RIGHT!
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...these factors may help explain why Russian forces, including an ominous 40-mile convoy of tanks and armored vehicles near Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, have come to a near crawl in the past day or two, U.S. officials said.
...the advance has not gone smoothly. Plagued by poor morale
as well as fuel and food shortages,
some Russian troops in Ukraine have
surrendered en masse or sabotaged their
own vehicles to avoid fighting, a senior Pentagon official said.
Now this could make Jennifer also right that "This is the end of Vladimir Putin"!!!!!!!!!!
U.S. analysts have been struck by the “risk-averse behavior” of such a large force, the Pentagon official said. Russia launched an amphibious landing to seize Mariupol, a pivotal port city on the Sea of Azov, but landed forces around 40 miles from the city. That allowed the Russians extra time and space to mount an invasion, but also gave the city’s defenders time to prepare.
Russia’s vaunted air force has yet to gain air superiority over Ukraine, with Russian warplanes thwarted by Ukrainian fighter jets and a surprisingly resilient and potent array of air defenses, from shoulder-fired Stinger antiaircraft missiles to much larger surface-to-air weapons, the Pentagon official said.
Jennifer was totally right--on everything! Jen-ny! Jen-ny! J.G.! J.G.!
