In his report as of 6:00 a.m. on October 4, 2022, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine spokesman noted in particular that the 3rd Army Corps of russia’s Armed Forces actually collapsed, essentially ceased to exist as an organized formation of enemy troops, therefore it cannot perform its assigned tasks.
The General Staff of Ukraine speaks of two main reasons: the units of the 3rd AK received mainly outdated equipment, which is not suitable for combat missions; the personnel of the 3rd Army Corps "distinguished" by extremely low discipline, therefore regularly abused alcohol, quite often left their positions arbitrarily and refused to follow the orders.
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The last but not the least: the officer corps of the russian army is characterized by incredible defects at all levels, therefore they are unable to organize proper maintenance of equipment and appropriate training of subordinates.
Even the contingent they send as "reinforcements" to the combat zone on the territory of Ukraine indicates the flawed thinking of the senior officers of the russian army. The General Staff of Ukraine indicates that russians are transferring, in particular, units of the Rosgvardiya from Siberia. Although after liberation of Kharkiv Oblast shows that in fact the units of russia’s National Guard are not capable of performing tasks even at the level of "light infantry" in a real combat situation.
Also, for the sake of reinforcement, russia’s units from Syria are about to be deployed in Ukraine. That means two things: firstly, the Kremlin decided to minimize its presence in this region. Secondly, "partial mobilization" at this stage does not even allow to quickly replenish the losses of "personnel" units of the russian army.
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