Gen David Petraeus: ‘(the Russians) use cell phones, and Ukrainians blocked the prefix for Russia. They took down 3G. They're stealing cell phones from Ukrainian civilians.
The column gets stopped and an impatient general goes forward to see what's going on, because there's no initiative -no non-commissioned officer corps- no sense of initiative at junior levels -they wait to be told what to do.
Gets up there, and the Ukrainians have very,
very good snipers- and have been picking them off’