Retired US Army commander General Ben Hodges : Russia 'cannot sustain what it's doing'

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“I’m convinced that Russia cannot sustain what it’s doing. There are some serious problems in their logistical chain.”

Retired US Army commander General Ben Hodges tells Rick Kelsey on #Timesradio that the Russian army is facing issues affecting their invasion.

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1. Ukraine pictured some of the recent Russian captured soldiers . . .

they looked, well not fit.

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2. Sanctions forcing Russia to use appliance parts in military gear, U.S. says

Evidently Putin is running out of high-tech missiles and Russia's only tank factory is closed due to a lack of parts. Some Russian planes are using OTC GPS units instead of miliary units. Putin is being forced to use appliance parts for his "war" machine

Link to tweet

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/05/11/russia-sanctions-effect-military/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=wp_main

U.S.-led sanctions are forcing Russia to use computer chips from dishwashers and refrigerators in some military equipment, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said Wednesday.

“We have reports from Ukrainians that when they find Russian military equipment on the ground, it’s filled with semiconductors that they took out of dishwashers and refrigerators,” Raimondo told a Senate hearing, noting that she recently met with Ukraine’s prime minister......

In her Senate remarks, Raimondo also pointed to recent reports that two Russian tank manufacturers have had to idle production because of a lack of components. The White House, too, has previously highlighted those reports, saying Uralvagonzavod and Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant have halted production.....

Previous research has shown Russia’s military has long relied on western electronics. Russian military drones shot down over Ukraine in recent years have been full of Western electronics and components, according to investigators from the London-based Conflict Armament Research group, which dissected the drones.

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3. I like the way he pointed out that the "20% of Ukraine Russia holds" includes the locations that

Russia has been occupying since 2014. In other words, they're still holding on to the areas they have already occupied and fortified, and they are taking a village or two each day by pounding them to dust, one-by-one, but elsewhere they are making little real progress, and have lost significant ground in some locations. C,mon, let's get those new weapons in place!

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4. Looking at those images of endless destruction in Ukraine is heartbreaking.