within morale of the force. as if somewhat didn t have enough morale problems, this is going to generate more. they don t know who to trust, and they re not getting the right kind of recruit. mr. putin also said yesterday that he s made major mistakes in terms of recruiting forces. he s recruited married men, older men, men with health problems. well, gee whiz, that s that hits the big three. and when you re talking about getting a lot of forces to the battlefield, my guess is it is not going to work out well for mr. putin or the russian force. general mark hurtling, always great to have you on. thanks so much. thanks, pam. you are in the cnn newsroom on this saturday. inflation is affecting virtually all of us across the country, but many military families, they are feeling an even bigger pinch from rising prices. journalist kaj larson joins us next to explain. team s devices. so you can easr
ukrainians have that significantly, but the russians do not. look it, this is an authoritarian regime that took no counsel for some of what they were doing. some thought they were going on a training exercise at the outset of this. and many of them, they put them right into the fight right out of basic training and a lot of them were clearly not prepared for anything on a scale for you ve seen. they ve seen the tactical leaders and people saying go here, go there. they ve seen their tactical leaders fold under pressure as well. so there s huge morale problems inside this force and right, we don t talk about it very much, but it s a major issue for the russian military. neil: general, thank you very, very much. as an end note, i just want to share after the general here, we did hear this morning that the ukraine nuclear power plant at zack it s back online, and
it very tentative to take part in more operations in the future. and finally, jim, what i d say is as you well know, you ve been with soldiers a lot, you know that war is mostly an issue of morale and will. the russian army has already been assessed to have terrible morale for a variety of reasons. their leaders have been killed, poor support for the troops, confusion as to the mission. so these attacks will further cause morale problems for the russian army while improving the ukrainian morale because they see the effects of their attacks. president zelenskyy has been telegraphing a later scale counteroffensive particularly in the south. and i wonder are these attacks by the way some gains for instance around kherson, are they disruptive or could they lead to ukraine actually taking back and controlling territory that had been taken by russia? can i say all the above?
its ukraine offensive beyond its current form. i think there s an excellent chance that excellent chance that we ll see an increase in the number of cruise missiles and other high technology missile attacks on soft targets in ukraine. that seemingly is something they re very enamoured with, and sadly, i think we will continue to view that on a daily basis. but when you get to the real aspects of increasing your offensive capability say, taking over air control in the skies of ukraine they failed so far. taking over the northern part of the black sea around 0desa they failed miserably at that. and control issues continue, and they continue to the logistic issue seems to continue, their command and control issues continue, and they continue to have significant morale problems. so, i think it s more rhetoric than anything else. so, with that, i mention dnipro there. we also saw this week vinnytsia, another place that was also hit. what can ukraine do,
missile attacks on soft targets in the ukraine. that seemingly something they are very enamoured with and sadly, i think they will continue to view that on a daily basis. but when you get it to the real aspects of increasing your offensive capability, say taking over air control and the skies of ukraine, they have failed so far. taking over the northern part of the black sea around 0desa, they failed miserably at that. their logistics issues seem to continue, the command control issues continue, and they continue to have significant morale problems. so i think it s more rhetoric than anything else. so wet that that is, rhetoric than anything else. so wet that that is, i rhetoric than anything else. so wet that that is, i mentioned rhetoric than anything else. so wet that that is, i mentioned it - rhetoric than anything else. so wet that that is, i mentioned it dniprol that that is, i mentioned it dnipro here, you mention soft targets, we also saw another place that was also hit,