Russian Soldier Calls Putin’s Army ‘Stupid Morons’: ‘Totally Sh*t Themselves’

More Russian soldiers appear to be turning their backs on President Vladimir Putin as the war in Ukraine stretches past its fifth week.

On Thursday, Ukraine’s Security Service released an alleged intercepted call where a Russian tanker was heard complaining about the incompetence of the people in his army during a phone conversation with his wife.

“Our brigade has totally sh*t themselves,” the soldier said. “There are losses, many wounded.”

The soldier’s wife later asks him whether the losses in the Russian army were the result of someone screwing up, to which he replied: “The whole army with us is stupid morons.”

In another alleged recording posted Thursday by the adviser to Ukraine’s interior minister Anton Gerashchenko, a Russian soldier identified as Maskim told his mother about the massive losses suffered by the army. He said the senior officer of their unit has fled, leaving the rest of the soldiers to fight for their lives.

“Everything’s bad, almost no one among us is left. They said we will keep going until the very end, until everyone is killed,” Maskim said in an intercepted phone call. “[The senior official] dumped us yesterday. We’re all dead in the water if he left.”

The new recordings come hours after the United Kingdom’s spy chief Sir Jeremy Fleming cited reports of Russian troops refusing to carry out orders in Ukraine, sabotaging their own equipment and even shooting down one of their own aircrafts.

Fleming added that he believes Putin’s advisors have not been forthcoming to the president about the low morale and poor performance of the Russian army in the war against Ukraine. His findings are similar to what U.S. intelligence officials have argued.

Several reports have noted the low morale among Russian troops. One report said a Russian soldier drove a tank over his commanding officer for the losses suffered by his unit. Another report said soldiers were shooting themselves in the leg using Ukrainian ammunition to get out of the battlefield.

Despite the heavy losses suffered by the Russian army over the past five weeks, Putin has yet to indicate any signs of abandoning the war.