The United States can not help which of the generals leads a special operation in Ukraine – Ukraine – tsn.ua.
American experts are perplexed by how I lead Russia’s military leadership in Ukraine.
The United States does not agree on whether Russia has appointed a military leader in charge of the Russian war in Ukraine, which has disrupted Russia’s assault.
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According to two representatives of the US Department of Defense, without a senior commander in the theater of operations in or near Ukraine, units from different military districts of Russia operating in different parts of Ukraine seem to be competing for resources rather than coordinating their troops.
Units selected in various Russian offensives in Ukraine do not participate in this source, in fact, it seems to operate independently without a comprehensive operational plan.
Russian forces also appear to have serious communication problems. From time to time, they used commercial cell phones and other unsecured communication channels to communicate with one, which allows them to intercept their messages and Ukraine to set targets for its own counterattacks.
All this has led to the fact that, according to these sources, the actions of the Russian military are fragmented and sometimes chaotic, which surprises American and Western officials.
“One of the principles of war is ‘single command,'” retired Lieutenant General Mark Hertling, a former U.S. military commander in Europe, told CNN.
The expert believes that Russia could have inadvertently appointed a top commander to monitor the invasion, but even the United States does not recognize this man – the state of hostilities shows that he is incompetent.
The Russian contribution is also marked by a trafficked victim among high-ranking Russian officers.
Ukrainians say they killed five Russian generals in the first three weeks of the war, but CNN has not confirmed this independently. However, any military general killed in battle is a rare event, said retired US Army General David Petraeus to Jake Tupper.
Colonel Sergei Sukharev, commander of Russia’s elite airborne unit, also died in Ukraine, Russia’s regional state television company Kostroma reported on Thursday.
“The point is that their command has failed,” Petraeus said.
“The Russians had great difficulty with command and during this operation in all echelons. In part, this may be due to the actions of the Ukrainians themselves,” – said a source in the United States, familiar with the situation on the ground.
According to sources, in the field of Russian troops under Polish conditions were often cut off from their senior commanders.
“The guys are out in the field, and they have a goal, but they don’t have the ability to answer on the radio,” said another source familiar with the intelligence, adding that Western officials believe that’s one of the reasons. “It was noticed that some Russian servicemen threw their tanks and armored personnel carriers in the field and just passed.”
sent that in the area of the settlement in the area of the settlement of the Makariv district of the Kiev group of the Russian tanners took possession of cars of area at all inhabitants, changed into plundered civilian clothes and left towards the border with the Republic of Belarus.