Someone wrote in [personal profile] ecosophia 2023-06-20 03:56 am (UTC)

Yeah, I've seen reports of large numbers of Ukrainian soldiers, up to entire infantry companies, surrendering en masse, as well as reports of officers being fragged by their own men. In one case, a Ukrainian battalion commander was apparently killed by one of his captains when he ordered them to attack Russian defensive positions, after the battalion had already suffered heavy losses from previous failed assaults. There have been increasingly common reports of units refusing to go into battle and of Leopard 2 crews sabotaging their own tanks because they know their chances of survival against Russian artillery, minefields and helicopter gunships are very low. I am reminded of how the morale of the Imperial German Army collapsed after the failure of the Spring Offensive in 1918 and of what happened when Admiral Hipper tried to order the High Seas Fleet to sea in October 1918, resulting in a munity that ended up with most of the battleships and city of Kiel being taken over by angry sailors, and which ultimately led to revolution breaking out all over Germany.

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