{"id":28560,"date":"2022-12-18T17:14:32","date_gmt":"2022-12-18T17:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=28560"},"modified":"2022-12-18T17:14:34","modified_gmt":"2022-12-18T17:14:34","slug":"high-casualty-and-poor-leadership-causing-fragile-morale-among-russia-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/12\/18\/high-casualty-and-poor-leadership-causing-fragile-morale-among-russia-force\/","title":{"rendered":"High casualty and poor leadership causing fragile morale among Russia force"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fragile morale almost certainly continues to be a significant vulnerability across much of the Russian force, the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has said in its latest defence intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In its daily briefing posted on Twitter, the MoD said soldiers\u2019 concerns primarily focus on very high casualty rates, poor leadership, pay problems, lack of equipment and ammunition, and lack of clarity about the war\u2019s objectives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It said the establishment of two frontline \u201ccreative brigades\u201d tasked with raising the morale of troops through providing entertainment and musical instruments among other things is \u201cunlikely to substantively alleviate these concerns\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">See the full briefing below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Latest Defence Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine &#8211; 18 December 2022<br> <br>Find out more about the UK government&#39;s response: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ssnfSJnQ3o\">https:\/\/t.co\/ssnfSJnQ3o<\/a><br><br>\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6 <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/StandWithUkraine?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#StandWithUkraine<\/a> \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/e2bZ7yBJJJ\">pic.twitter.com\/e2bZ7yBJJJ<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Ministry of Defence \ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udde7 (@DefenceHQ) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DefenceHQ\/status\/1604355132983910402?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 18, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fragile morale almost certainly continues to be a significant vulnerability across much of the Russian force, the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has said in its latest defence intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine. In its daily briefing posted on Twitter, the MoD said soldiers\u2019 concerns primarily focus on very high casualty rates, poor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":28561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[9747,9537,12439,9974,10917,9021,10214,3457,9020,5217,5618,9178,5350,12605,11247,5180,5251],"class_list":["post-28560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-ammunition","tag-defence-intelligence","tag-instruments","tag-leadership","tag-poor","tag-poor-leadership","tag-rates","tag-russia","tag-russia-force","tag-russian","tag-soldiers","tag-troops","tag-twitter","tag-uk","tag-uk-ministry-of-defence","tag-ukraine","tag-war"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}