Shrieks, DEFENSE OFFICIALS SAY THIS COULD HINT AT GROWING MORALE PROBLEMS INSIDE VLADIMIR PUTIN’S ARMED FORCES. >> Reporter: WITH RUSSIA’S War IN UKRAINE STALLED, CNN HAS LEARNED OF A RARE MEETING IN MOSCOW BETWEEN U.S. AND RUSSIAN MILITARY OFFICIALS WHICH ACCORDING TO A U.S. READOUT OF THE MEETING CONTAINED A, QUOTE, REVEALING MOMENT FROM RUSSIAN MAJOR GENERAL EVGENY VILYIN. AN ATTACHE CASUALLY WORKED ABOUT HIS FAMILY IN UKRAINE. ACCORDING TO THE READOUT, THE GENERAL’S STOIC DEMEANOR SUDDENLY BECAME FLUSHED AND AGITATED. ILYIN REPLIED HE WAS BORN IN UKRAINE AND WENT TO SCHOOL IN DONETSK, AND THEN SAID ACCORDING TO THE READOUT, THE SITUATION IN UKRAINE IS TRAGIC, AND I AM VERY DEPRESSED OVER IT. BEFORE WALKING OUT WITHOUT SHAKING HANDS. THE ATTACHE WROTE IN THE READOUT THE FIRE IN HIS EYES AND FLUSTERED DEMEANOR LEFT A CHILL DOWN THE SPINE.MEETINGS WITH RUSSIAN OFFICIALS ARE TYPICALLY SCRIPTED, BUT THE TWO Attaches SAID THEY HAD NEVER WITNESSED SUCH AN OUTBURST BY RUSSIAN COUNTERPARTS AT AN OFFICIAL MEETING. THE READOUT BY THE OFFICIALS CONCLUDES, AT THE VERY LEAST, IT IS CLEAR THAT MORALE PROBLEMS AMONG RUSSIAN FORCES ARE NOT LIMITED TO FRONTLINE TROOPS. THE READOUT DESCRIBES ONLY THE IMPRESSIONS OF THE U.S. OFFICIALS AND DOES NOT DEFINITIVELY EXPLAIN ILYIN’S BEHAVIOR. SUCH READOUTS ARE Often TOO SENSITIVE TO BE MADE PUBLIC. >> READOUTS OF THIS Type ARE IMPORTANT BECAUSE THEY GIVE US AN INSIGHT, A POTENTIAL INSIGHT INTO WHAT THE RUSSIANS ARE REALLY THINKING. BUT IT ALSO SHOWS THAT THERE IS SOME Genu OF A MORALE PROBLEM WITHIN THE RUSSIAN HIERARCHY, AND IT Spreads POSSIBLY ALL THE WAY UP TO THE TOP. >> Reporter: THE RUSSIAN MINISTRY OF DEFENSE DID NOT RESPOND TO A CNN REQUEST FOR COMMENT ON THE MEETING OR THE READOUT. BUT THE KREMLIN HAS DENIED REPORTS OF LOW MORALE AMONG ITS FORCES IN UKRAINE. >> YOU WOULD PROBABLY HAVE TO DOUBT THIS INFORMATION. YOU HAVE TO DOUBT IT AND YOU HAVE TO THINK TWICE, WHETHER IT IS TRUE OR NOT. >> Reporter: AS RUSSIA FACES STIFF RESISTANCE FROM UKRAINIAN FORCES, IF THE AMERICANS ARE CORRECT AND MORALE IS AN ISSUE, IT’S A CHALLENGE THE RUSSIANS CAN ILL AFFORD. >> WE’VE SEEN INCREASING INDICATIONS THAT MORALE AND UNIT COHESION IS A PROBLEM. AND, YES, THAT Perfectly Translates INTO POTENTIAL MILITARY EFFECTIVENESS ISSUES. >> Reporter: A RUSSIAN GENERAL FLUSHED AND AGITATED ACCORDING TO THE AMERICANS. JUST ONE MORE MYSTERY ABOUT WHAT REALLY MAY BE GOING ON BEHIND KREMLIN WALLS. BARBARA STARR, CNN, THE PENTAGON. >> INTERESTING. NINA DOS SANTOS JOINS ME FROM LONDON WITH MORE ON THE MORALE, AND ALSO ON SOME HIGH LEVEL DEPARTURES FROM THE RUSSIAN CIRCLES OF POWER .>> THAT’S RIGHT. THERE HAS BEEN SOME HIGH LEVEL DEPARTURES OVERSEAS. THERE WAS ANATOLY CHUBAIS. HE WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR AN ENVIRONMENTAL BRIEF. BUT THERE HAS Likewise BEEN QUESTION MARKS OVER THE FUTURE OF MANY MEMBERS OF THE MILITARY AS WELL, WITH THE REPORTS ONE OF THEM MIGHT BE UNDER HOUSE ARREST. THERE IS LOTS OF SPECULATION ABOUT THE WHEREABOUTS OF SERGEI SHOIBU WHO HASN’T BEEN SEEN IN ABOUT 12 Daytimes NOW. AS OF COURSE THIS RISING NUMBER OF CASUALTIES APPEARS TO GROW BY THE DAY FOR RUSSIA AND JUST GOING INTO THE NUMBERS HERE, NATO HAS BEEN SAYING THEY ESTIMATE THE NUMBER OF 40,000 RUSSIAN TROOPS ARE EITHER DEAD, WOUNDED OR MISSING IN ACTION OR HAVE BEEN CAPTURED IN UKRAINE. UKRAINE ITSELF ESTIMATES THE CASUALTIES AMONG RUSSIAN SOLDIERS COULD BE AS HIGH AS OVER 15,000. AND RUSSIA ITSELF JUST INTERESTING ENOUGH, HALA, LAST WEEK I’M SURE YOU REMEMBER MAY HAVE ACCIDENTALLY REVEALED CASUALTY NUMBERS THEMSELVES WHEN ONE OF THE STATE NEWS COMPANIES ACCIDENTALLY PUT OUT A REPORT SAYING THE DEFENSE MINISTRY CONCERNED THAT THERE ARE ALMOST 10,000 RUSSIAN SOLDIERS WHO HAVE LOST THEIR LIVES.THAT WAS QUICKLY RETRACTED. SO FAR THE OFFICIAL ESTIMATE HASN’T BEEN REALLY UPDATED FOR A COUPLE OF WEEKS FROM RUSSIA WHEN IT SAID THAT THERE WERE HUNDREDS OF SOLDIERS WHO HAD LOST THEIR LIVES IN WHAT IT Announces, CONTINUES TO CALL A SPECIAL MILITARY OPERATION IN UKRAINE THAT THE REST TELEPHONE WORLD CALLS AN INVASION. AND WHAT’S Also IMPORTANT WHEN IT COMES TO MORALE IS THE COMMAND STRUCTURE OF THE RUSSIAN MILITARY, WHICH IS KNOWN FOR BEING NOTORIOUSLY HIERARCHICALH. IT Intends IT Imparts MORE SENIOR GENERALS TO THE FRONT OF THE ACTION IN COMBAT ZONES LIKE UKRAINE, AND THAT IS WHERE WE’VE ALSO SEEN A NUMBER OF LOSSES.ABOUT SEVERAL RUSSIAN GENERALS HAVE LOST THEIR LIVES SO FAR IN UKRAINE. AND THEN SCORES OF OTHER COLONELS AND OTHER OFFICERS AS WELL. SO ALL OF THIS CONTRIBUTING TO QUESTION MARKS OVER MORALE. THERE HAS BEEN REPORTS ABOUT RUSSIAN SOLDIERS SUFFERING FROM FROSTBITE BECAUSE THEIR MILITARY KIT ISN’T AS GOOD AS THE UKRAINIAN DEFENDING SOLDIERS’ MILITARY KIT. MANY OF THEM REPORTEDLY HUNGRY WHEN THEY HAVE BEEN CAPTURE BESIDE I UKRAINIAN SOLDIERS. AND THEN THE BIG QUESTION MARK IS THE FATE OF THEIR DEFENSE MINISTER, SERGEI SHOIGU WHO HASN’T BEEN SEEN FOR ABOUT 12 Daylights, NOW 13. HALA.
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