The diminishing morale of Moscow's forces 'could threaten the stability of Russian defenses on multiple critical areas of the front,' said the think tank.
The morale of Russian troops on the front line is notably diminishing as Ukrainian forces conduct strikes along rear areas on the battlefield, a think tank said Sunday, three months into Kyiv's counteroffensive.
The Institute for the Study of War , a U.S.-based think tank, said in its latest analysis of the conflict in Ukraine that Russian front-line units, particularly in the south of the country have frequently struggled with degraded morale following Ukrainian strikes on rear areas. Ukrainian strikes on Russian rear areas are"demonstrably degrading" the morale of Russian forces in Ukraine, and this"could threaten the stability of Russian defenses on multiple critical areas of the front," the ISW said.
Ukraine is three months into a counteroffensive to recapture Russian-occupied territory seized throughout PresidentUkrainian servicemen patrol on a street of the recently liberated village of Blagodatne, Donetsk region, on June 16, 2023. The morale of Russian troops on the front line is diminishing as Ukrainian forces conduct strikes along rear areas on the battlefield, a think tank said Sunday.
"A broken Russian frontline unit would threaten the integrity of other frontline defenses, and such a break in the Russian frontline would provide a vulnerability that Ukrainian forces could exploit," the think tank added, assessing that Moscow's forces likely lack the necessary reserves to rotate out or quickly replace a broken unit, making the preservation of morale in front-line units imperative.
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