UK says lack of scheduled breaks severe personnel issue in Russian army

• Personnel are ‘mentally and physically exhausted as they have been on active combat duty since Feb 24 

The British Defense Ministry in its intelligence report said the lack of scheduled breaks from intense combat conditions is highly likely one of the most damaging of the many personnel issues. 

“In late June, a Russian-language media agency based in Russia’s far eastern Lake Baikal region uploaded a video in which the wives of soldiers from the Eastern Military District’s (EMD) 36th Combined Arms Army directly appealed to a local politician for their husbands to be returned home from service in Ukraine,” the ministry said in a report. 

“One woman claimed that personnel of EMD’s 5th Separate Guards Tank Brigade are ‘mentally and physically exhausted because they have been on active combat duty since the launch of the ‘special military operation’ on 24 February 2022,” MoD said in a tweet. 

Meanwhile, Russian artillery bombardments continued in the northern Donbas sector, but probably without any major territorial advances.

Picture Credits: AP 

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