To be clear, are you saying the 65km convoy is going to fail to take Kyiv?
I just don't understand how that could happen unless they literally run out of fuel on the way, or if some serious airforce intervenes.
I just don't understand how that could happen unless they literally run out of fuel on the way, or if some serious airforce intervenes.
surprise (not), but they literally ran out of fuel on the way [0]
that 65km convoy is just a 65km sitting duck of a traffic jam at the moment. without fuel and food
all of this war is a festival of glorious russian corruption and incompetency at its best. i, as a ukrainian, must thank them for that
[0]: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-move-kyiv-stall...
We don't they just count the vehicles, I would imagine even basic computer vision software could do that with reasonable accuracy.
If 100 vehicles are in a 10 mile long convoy and then they space out more and are now in a 20 mile long convoy, it's still 100 vehicles.
I do enjoy reading each day the different lengths and distances to Kyiv.
Pop the leader with a Javelin. Pop a couple more vehicles that try to get around it. Presto, instant traffic jam and the Russians have repeatedly shown they clump up in traffic jams. Now you hit the vehicles in the rear, you're not likely to need sophisticated weapons to do that.
Now you have a huge mess that you can rain mortar fire on.
Finland did a lower-tech version of it to them long ago with trees rather than mud as the barrier.
It's going to be a slaughter, on both sides :(
this seems to be happening quite a bit
If anything, it is unthinkable for an advanced army to move in such disposition. They what, cosplay the Freedom Convoy?
Putin did say his troops will be fighting for "Freedom" of Ukraine.