Page 6 - Morale Problems News Today

Surround the capitol went. russia is taking more casualties than expected. >> theyre having morale problems. having supply problems, fuel problems, food problems. theyre meeting a very stiff and determined ukrainian resistance. >> john kirby confirmed reports that the russians are recruiting foreign fighters to help them in ukraine, syrian fighters experienced in urban warfare. theyre on a recruiting mission. not clear and cant speak to the quality of recruits but shows the russians have taken l...

Long convoy of tanks and supplies outside of kyiv has been stalled for days and u.s. defense officials say morale problems, feud, and fuel shortages are plaguing russian troops. any moment now, the state department will give us an update. >> lets turn to anderson cooper in lviv. youre seeing an enormous effort by people there who really just want to help in in way they can. >> yeah, i dont think ive ever been in a country at war that is so unified in its anger toward the invading force, toward r...

And your reporter is exactly right, the general he was talking to, the russians dont have the people to do this. so they are facing a major problem and yet they run into a big problem if there are our morale problems are in the russian military as such as they have seen it could be that russian if it stores. if that happens, getting back to your question they might turn to negotiation. thats interesting when you say the ukrainian military is doing very well, its doing very well as a minnow again...

Providing them weapons and systems that they need most to defeat russian aggression. in particular, anti-armor and air defense. >> reporter: the russian advance toward kyiv is largely stalled, despite heavy fighting according to a senior defense official, as the russians face supply shortages and morale problems. the ukrainian spirit still on full display. the classic symphony orchestra played a concert. >> it has been said again and again and it bares repeating, the strength of the people here ...

Listen, the russian militarys very disorganized, the people -- theres a lot of, you know, disillusion. and then other guests have said, no, no, theyre very strong, this is plan b, theyre moving forward. when you talk to ukraine koreans, what -- ukrainians, what do they think? do they think the russians are strong, or do they think that theyre disorganized and not doing well? >> reporter: they know that the ukrainian -- that the russian army is the powerhouse here. they know that, you know, they ...

From the south where they came up out of ukraine in an attack in different directions. in other parts including crucially the convoy that weve kept an eye on coming out of belarus, the north, that remains stalled. the russians are encountering a number of problems including morale issues, food shortages and more. perhaps to try to bolster their forces and plug those shortages, the u.s. believes that russia is looking to bring in foreign fighters, particularly syrians, to add to their already mas...

Encircling the city, turning off the electric grid, turning off the food, bombarding the population. that phase of the war is going to be brutal. but the russians may well be having morale problems also besides competence. they dont look very good at the battalion level either. a rough go though, ukrainians are fighting back. >> a rough go indeed. the images on the right side of your screen, devastating. jeremy, how concerned are you now that russia has control of this nuclear plant, the biggest...

Very good point. that their heart does not seem to be in it for some of these russian soldiers. when we have seen those confrontations with extraordinary ukrainians, they are not firing at them. they seem to retreat in large part. i have seen some of those russian soldiers firing into the air. but thats the limit of the action they have taken. on the other hand, the russian forces keep coming. this, remember, is a huge army. a huge military power. so while we can talk about morale problems among...

You can see there the red strike areas where russian troops are present, mostly in the northeast and the south. the ukrainian military digging in. this artillery unit firing at russian forces north of kyiv. meanwhile, the pentagon says that giant russian convoy outside the capital is still stalled in place. and a senior u.s. defense official says russia is now trying to beef up its forces with foreign fighters. cnn previously reported that moscow was poised to deploy 1,000 more mercenaries. >> w...

Extraordinarily expensive war with their economy in tatters at home. >> so i think thats becoming the x factor here, joe. if the economic sanctions devastate the russian economy, they amount to economic war against russia that could force russian escalation, but its also going to enfeeble the russian war machine. the reports that we have been getting, talking to pentagon officials last night, of widespread dissent, criticism, morale problems within the russian military, i think are increasingly ...