warfare, this is the lack of counter battery combat, absence ofrecognizance oig stations. reporter: pretty jarring to hear. we know russia has tried to cover the scale of their losses in this war. and he says according to the audio message that this was seen by the senior commanders as a threat and they dismissed him, an action that he describes as treacherously decapitating the army at the most difficult and tense moment of course referring to the counteroffensive. this clearly speaks to a legal of chaos perhaps even incompetence in the russian army