The ministry of defence’s most recent intelligence update from the war in Ukraine – published on December 23 – suggested rats and mice have joined troops still fighting through the winter. “Rodents will add further pressure to front line combatants’ morale.”The pests present a serious practical problem, as the MoD explained. “They pose a risk to military equipment by gnawing through cables – as recorded in the same area during the Second World War,” the intelligence experts said. “Unverified reports also suggest Russian units started to suffer from increased sickness cases which the troops attribute to the pest problem.”Latest Defence Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine – 23 December 2023. Russia has since admitted that one of Moscow’s most celebrated ships of its Black Sea fleet, Novocherkassk, was hit on December 26.

Source: Huffington Post December 27, 2023 11:23 UTC