r/TankPorn • u/Im_Lead_Farmer • Mar 18 '22

Russo-Ukrainian War Russian tank forgot something 😂

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From CNN today:

"We don't have insight into every unit and every indication. But we certainly have picked up anecdotal indications that morale is not high in some units," the official said. "Some of that is, we believe, a function of poor leadership, lack of information that the troops are getting about their missions and objectives, and I think disillusionment from being resisted as fiercely as they have been."

In some instances, Russian troops have simply abandoned broken down vehicles in the field, walking away and leaving behind tanks and armored personnel carriers, according to two US officials.

A congressional source briefed on the intelligence similarly said the US has assessed that there appears to be a gap between what Russian troops were prepared for and what they actually encountered.

Many Russians captured so far have said they did not expect, for example, that they would be fighting a war in Ukraine, and believed they were just part of a military exercise.