Alcohol and Incompetence Plague Russian Military, UK Intelligence Reports.

The 155th Naval Infantry Brigade, considered one of Russia's "elite" units, has been made "combat ineffective" at least twice in the last six months due to tactically flawed frontal assaults near Vuhledar in Donetsk Oblast, according to a British Ministry of Defence intelligence update. The Russian Ministry of Defense has been running a deliberate information operation to revive the brigade's reputation, which has become synonymous with recent Russian failures in Ukraine. The British ministry suggests that Moscow's efforts to restore the unit's image likely reflect concern about the way in which its failures were being increasingly associated with Russian senior military leaders.