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- Russia has accidentally bombed Russian-controlled territory twice in the last week, UK intel said.
- The UK said the mistakes were likely "exacerbated by inadequate training and crew fatigue."
- Russian soldiers have grown demoralized and desperate to return home as the war drags on.
Russia has accidentally dropped bombs on territories it controls two times in the last week, and British intelligence believes the mistakes were likely "exacerbated" by poor training and exhausted crews.
The first incident occurred on January 2, when a Russian plane accidentally "discharged a munition damaging nine residential properties in Petropavlovka, in Russia's Voronezh Oblast," the UK's Ministry of Defence said in a Wednesday intelligence update.
The second incident happened on Monday, when Russia discharged an FAB-250 munition over a village in Luhansk Oblast in occupied Ukraine, the intelligence update said.
"Russia's continued propensity for munition accidents is likely exacerbated by inadequate training and crew fatigue," the update added, "leading to poor execution of tactics during missions."
Indeed, Russia has, in recent months, resumed the use of its bloody "human wave" tactics, which involve throwing huge numbers of unprepared, poorly trained troops into the thick of battle without the right equipment.
Russian soldiers are also growing increasingly demoralized and desperate to return home.
But Russian President Vladimir Putin recently dampened those hopes when he squashed a proposed new round of mobilization that would allow for beleaguered soldiers who have been fighting for a year or longer to come home, The Washington Post reported.
"There's no fucking 'dying the death of the brave' here," one soldier in the Kharkiv region told his brother last January, according to a recording of a phone call obtained by The Associated Press. "You just die like a fucking earthworm."