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Have are manpower and material and morale. on manpower, they are trying to get, you know, they have to go to wagner because their draft is struggling. they have had to draft russians into the army and the russian men are not interested in fighting this war. so they are fleeing the country. on the manpower side, they have to look to wagner. on material, yeah, they are going to where? north korea. they are going to iran because the rest of the world, even the chinese, are fearful of providing weapons and ammunition to the russians again out of concern for being sanctioned. last thing, morale. th...

Defeats this fall alone in areas that they had the russian military under putin declared victory we saw a russian retreat. i'm referring to kharkiv and to kherson. these were big losses just a few months ago. so they need a bigger military, but whether they can have it, i think, is a really open question. rich: and this also goes to the question of can they quip more troops. -- e give more -- equip more troops. they've had massive problems with that already, right? >> they have. and i failed to mention that they also have morale problems and training problems. so this has been a big audit on r...

Within morale of the force. as if somewhat didn't have enough morale problems, this is going to generate more. they don't know who to trust, and they're not getting the right kind of recruit. mr. putin also said yesterday that he's made major mistakes in terms of recruiting forces. he's recruited married men, older men, men with health problems. well, gee whiz, that's -- that hits the big three. and when you're talking about getting a lot of forces to the battlefield, my guess is it is not going to work out well for mr. putin or the russian force. >> general mark hurtling, always great to have...

Ukrainians have that significantly, but the russians do not. look it, this is an authoritarian regime that took no counsel for some of what they were doing. some thought they were going on a training exercise at the outset of this. and many of them, they put them right into the fight right out of basic training and a lot of them were clearly not prepared for anything on a scale for you've seen. they've seen the tactical leaders and people saying go here, go there. they've seen their tactical leaders fold under pressure as well. so there's huge morale problems inside this force and right, we do...

It very tentative to take part in more operations in the future. and finally, jim, what i'd say is as you well know, you've been with soldiers a lot, you know that war is mostly an issue of morale and will. the russian army has already been assessed to have terrible morale for a variety of reasons. their leaders have been killed, poor support for the troops, confusion as to the mission. so these attacks will further cause morale problems for the russian army while improving the ukrainian morale because they see the effects of their attacks. >> president zelenskyy has been telegraphing a later ...