The Russian army was suffering from a total shortage of personnel, throwing conscripts into battle.
The war in Ukraine revealed so many problems for the Russian army, that no one would dare call it the third most powerful in the world. Conflict Intelligence Team Ruslan analysts analyzed the main problems of the Russian army, which became noticeable during the invasion of Ukraine.
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According to experts, within a month and a half of the war, the total shortage of personnel in the Russian army became apparent. The Russians had to go through all sorts of tricks to form battalion tactical groups, which according to the state were supposed to consist of 600 people, but in fact there were 400 people in them. Send conscripts into battle, or recruit people with a completely non-combat specialty.
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In aviation and air defense (air defense), Russia, on paper, should have a huge advantage over Ukraine. What happened in Mariupol – the massive use of artillery and aircraft – is a typical Russian strategy, experts say. So it is in Chechnya, so it is in Syria, the Russian army has not learned how to fight otherwise.
But the impact of the massive missile strike on Russia is expected to be completely different. In their task – to suppress and destroy the Ukrainian air defense, aviation, command – Russia’s missile strikes and aviation were not fully coped, and they failed to win strategic air supremacy.
At the same time, the Russian army has a big problem with the reconnaissance of targets. Apparently the targets were determined by some other Soviet data. During the war, a person could repeatedly observe messages on social networks, backed up by photos and videos, that a powerful missile had hit the area where there was a military facility. , but it is long gone.
Poor coordination and communication
The Russians showed an explicit lack of coordination between the different types of troops and an inability to work on communications at the level of soldiers and unit commanders. They are given a means of secure communication, but not everyone works, and no one knows how to use them. It is not tested during exercises, in peacetime there is a mobile phone that you can always use. And it turns out that the headquarters, which is in the background, does not know where the soldier is and what his circumstances are now. And the soldier doesn’t get a command of what to do next.
Low quality equipment and supplies
It is noteworthy even to non-experts that in Ukraine even terodefense is better dressed than the regular Russian army. There have been many cases when the Russian military has removed Ukrainian winter berets from the dead or from prisoners of war – Russian soldiers have no such.
There is a problem with bulletproof vests, helmets, sights, dressing bags, etc.
Russian soldiers have had first-aid kits since the 1970s, they have bandages, painkillers and that’s it. The Ukrainian army has more time to rescue the wounded before they die. We have modern hemostatic devices and we have already developed the procedure for evacuating the injured.
In fact, the Russian army found itself in the Ukrainian position in 2014. They were no longer ready, the equipment was not moving and there was also no sensible supply. Even if the food is given in insufficient quantities, some of the food is already overdue.
Low morale
Low financial security, huge losses, hostility of the local Ukrainian population, a large number of refusenik, all this does not contribute to increasing morale.
Source: korrespondent
