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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 10 points 9 months ago

The slight issue is that a lot of the ground troops don't know anything really. Russian military don't really work on the assumption that their soldiers have any brains. They're not encouraged to think for themselves, so they're not told anything that they would be need to think for themselves. This means they don't have a lot of intelligence they can offer.

For example, an American soldier might know when a strike is due to happen because they're part of that strike. But if a Russian soldier is going to be part of that strike, they won't get told until maybe an hour before it starts. Remember most of them didn't even know they were invading Ukraine when they were doing it. They thought it was a faint or that they were the liberators, and would be welcomed with open arms.

Your average Russian has no idea what's going on.