This thread 🧵shows Ukrainian Territorials playing the same role as US Revolutionary militia in filling the battle space between formed armies like the latter did against the British Army in Philadelphia.
Only formed Russian BTG can bull through these people.
Since I'm seeing a lot of misinformation surfacing about the Ukrainian logistical posture. It is time for a thread🧵on planes, trains and automobiles in the Ukraine war in relation to NATO Lend Lease.
Where are the Russian red arrows compared to the Ukrainian train tracks? 1/
None of those red arrows cut off rail lines going to Kyiv, Odessa & deeply into the East Ukraine right up to the Donbas battle area.
The Eastern 1/3 of Ukraine is under UAF air superiority. Putin cannot shut down Ukrainian trains filled with East European ammo & EU fuel 2/
...provided for free.
This is why you are seeing lines of Ukrainian infantry with anti-tank rockets for a 1/2 dozen NATO states so quickly on the battle line. 3/
2nd the Russians are using bigger truck convoys. This is a tactical improvement in that there are fewer targets for Ukrainian Territorial "Road Burning Sweeps" or Spetsnaz kill teams.
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3rd, the Russians haven't put _ANY_ combat or civil engineering efforts to clear wrecks and open lanes for their trucks.
Heck, a T-72 tank with a bulldozer blade could have cleared those wrecks in 30 minutes so the convoy didn't have to slow down past that bottle neck.
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Because I saw it in 2015 and wrote about just this in relation to the Ukrainian VDV "Cyborgs" fight for the Donetsk Airport Terminal building from July 2014 until 22 January 2015.
Alright, a few Mud, Road & Truck maintenance observations here.🧵
The BTR-82 tire treads in this video are the same as those on several Russian trucks captured with sh--ty tires by Ukraine. They may have the same flawed Chinese tire issues.
That piece of pavement is so heat damaged it's going to crack and throw pot holes from day night heat cycles and precipitation, let alone any military truck traffic. The road is in none too good a shape to start with.
This sort of 'pavement attrition" 2/
...is happening everywhere the Ukrainians and Russians destroy combat & support vehicles on Ukrainian roads
The end result is what's called "Friction" in war. It takes more and more effort to do the simple things
Destroyed roads like this are a cascading systems malfunction 3/
This is a useful video to watch for several reasons. A Ukrainian missile comes from the right (Javelin? NLAW?) & kills a Russian tank with a top attack setting off its ammo.
No one got out of that tank.
The key thing here is that you are seeing this drone video at all. 1/