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Mr Havrylov argued the Russian military had become demoralised and disoriented because of the persistent counter-offensive. The Deputy Defence minister claimed that the Russian Army had lost

its commanding control structure in just two days, describing scenes of Russian military equipment such as tanks and armoured vehicles being left behind on the battlefield. Mr Havrylov 

claimed that the success of Ukraine's military was "higher" than expected due to the fact that they managed to seize key occupied areas of their land back from Russian forces.

Mr Havrylov told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "Just the tempo of operations in the East demonstrates how fragile and how unconfident are the Russian military, in the East

especially, with many troops demoralised and the officer core totally disoriented in this war. "They've lost their logistics, they've lost their commanding control structure

just in two days. "That's why sometimes the successes of our military were even higher than expected. "A lot of equipment has been abandoned by the Russian military. JUST IN:

SEPTEMBER 15 - ON THIS DAY: 41 YEARS SINCE MARGARET THATCHER'S PURGE OF DISSENTERS Ukraine's Deputy of Defence added: "In some areas, we can see many tanks, and armoured

vehicles and many of them are in working condition. "Operational and just left in the fields, in the roads, and lots of prisoners of war. "So that is a demonstration of the

degradation of the Russian military during this war. "In terms of the morale, in terms of the motivation, in terms of the equipment... Because a lot of equipment which was captured was

old and broken." READMORE: PUTIN'S ELITE 'BODYGUARDS OF MOSCOW' WILL TAKE YEARS TO REBUILD AFTER UKRAINE FAILURES “Finally, they have to tell him that the army is not

coming, and he loses his mind. Well, that could literally be Putin.” He added: “I think the Russian people don’t know. If they knew, we would know because it would get out. “There are

several levels to this. The Army knows what condition it is in. Whether Putin gets that information, I don't know. “As they become less and less capable of doing things, it leads to the

question of, do they lie and just say that they suck? “Or do they acknowledge the truth that their formations do not have enough infantrymen in them anymore to do things? “Either way, they

come off looking really bad. But they can either look stupid or they can tell the emperor he is naked and his system sucks.” Dr Callahan added: “Maybe you are less likely to get shot if you

just say you are stupid.” READ NEXT