Ukrainian attacks on Russian supply lines have left Russian units scrambling for food, water and ammunition, blunting Moscow\u2019s renewed invasion into Ukraine\u2019s northeast Kharkiv region, according to Ukrainian field commanders who shared radio and phone intercepts and results of their interrogations of Russian prisoners of war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The intercepts and extensive interviews with 10 Ukrainian commanders and troops operating across the front line in Kharkiv \u2014 including several who monitor Russian communications and who question POWs immediately after they are captured \u2014 paint a picture of increasingly desperate Russian ground troops who are losing personnel and momentum after reinvading across the border in May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the transcript of one radio conversation, intercepted in June and shared with The Washington Post, a Russian soldier orders another to ensure incoming troops responsible for carrying supplies understand that there is a dire shortage of food and water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cTell each of them \u2026 not to listen to the [expletive] guide who says that \u2018Water is not needed, food is not needed, everything is here,\u2019\u201d the soldier says. \u201cThere is nothing here.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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