The British Defense Ministry said Sunday that Russian soldiers in Ukraine are suffering from an "age-old battle against the elements."
The daily British intelligence report said that soldiers at a military affairs conference in Moscow complained earlier this month about being "wet from head to toe" for weeks on the front line and unable to light a fire for "a mug of tea" because that action risked alerting their positions to Ukrainian soldiers. The Russian soldiers also complained about eating monotonous food in pervasive mud.