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The fire in his eyes and flustered demeanor left a chill down the spine. meetings with russian officials are typically scripted, but the two attaches said they had never witnessed such an outburst by russian counterparts at an official meeting. the readout by the officials concludes, at the very least, it is clear that morale problems among russian forces are not limited to frontline troops. the readout describes only the impressions of the u.s. officials and does not definitively explain ilyin's behavior. such readouts are typically too sensitive to be made public. >> readouts of this type ar...

Sources and methods. but the most recent intelligence is interesting. gchq, the signals intelligence. and signals intelligence means listening to -- trying to listen to what enemy transmissions, russian transmissions are up to. and apparently not only the western intelligence services but the ukrainians are getting pretty good at it. aided bye the fact that, you know, as spider referred to, we have a morale problem. they are whipping out cell phones and trying to communicate with each other, tactically, where are you, your unit, and also perhaps back home in moscow. that makes it easy to colle...

So forth. but they are using brutality in order to drive the political situation. >> what about these reports of, in some cases, russian troops refusing to obey orders? in one case, we understand according to intelligence reports perhaps even accidentally shooting down one of their own aircraft. there is some video circulating online of russian troops hitchhiking away from their positions because they just do not want to fight this fight. what impact does that have overall on the russian war effort? >> it's hard to say because this is fundamentally an information war where, you know, where the...

Front line troops. the readout describes only the demeanor of the officials and does not explain the behavior. such readouts are too sensitive to be made public. >> readouts of this type are important because they give us an insight, potential insight, into what the russians are also thinking. but it also shows there was some kind of a morale problem within the russian hierarchy and it extends possibly all the way up to the top. >> reporter: the russian ministry of defense did not respond to a cnn request comment on the meeting or the readout. but the kremlin has denied reports of low morale a...

So you have these incidences. it's very clear that you have a morale problem within the russian military perhaps all the way up into the ministry of defense, you know, in russia. but at the same time, what really matters is what people think is going on, what they perceive is happening on the battlefield. so it only takes, you know, enough troops to commit brutalities to frighten enough of the ukrainian population to change zelenskyy's position at the negotiating table. and even there are russian troops that may or may not be shooting on their own aircraft, that doesn't mean that the chechen m...