Thread by @ChrisO_wiki

1/ A few months back, @TrentTelenko posted a great question (see below). The possible answer is somewhat unexpected – according to an L/DNR Telegram blogger, civilian vehicles are being used because all the military tires have been stolen and sold. A 🧵.

https://twitter.com/TrentTelenko/status/1516072383970516995

2/ The pseudonymous Telegram blogger "We hear from Yanina" (Нам пишут из Янины) writes:

"[The] Donetsk People's Republic 1st Army Corps and Lugansk People's Republic 2nd Army Corps have been stealing tires for Ural and Kamaz all-terrain army trucks for years".

3/ Until the recent annexation, the supply of parts for military vehicles was formally prohibited due to Russian restrictions on 'dual-use products':

"Parts, especially small ones, could somehow be brought. Large ones – cannibalize from broken vehicles. But what about rubber?"

4/ "In the spring and summer of this year, and even now, in the 'Zone of the Special Military Operation' it was easy to find out whose convoy stopped along the road, Russians or Donbass, without even talking to the drivers ...

5/ ... and without looking at the tactical signs on the doors of the trucks. Just by looking at the tires of the nearest Ural truck. If the tire is as bald as a knee – it's ours, if the pattern is still preserved – then there is a 90% chance that it belongs to the Russians.

6/ For seven years, cargo tires have been stolen from the People's Militia Corps, which is in high demand on the civilian market in Russia.

7/ And the few crumbs of this deficit that passed from the Russian Federation were not issued to the army units, but were sold to those who would give a bigger bribe ...

8/ The first solution was, of course, to replace the heavy vehicles used for 80% of the tasks with smaller ones – all kinds of civilian models of minibuses and vans for driving on asphalt, and UAZ-Bukhankas and Golovastiks for driving on unpaved roads.

9/ Moreover, civilian diesel vans [were adopted], because gasoline transport was a real ruin for any vehicle being driven constantly, except perhaps for artillery battalions with gasoline Urals in the role of BM-21 and support vehicles.

10/ What is the name of the gasoline Ural in our army? That's right - "Breadwinner" . If you have a gasoline Ural, put it on jacks in a box and write vouchers, and with gasoline from these vouchers fill up vans and cars that will actually carry people and goods." /end

(Source linked below.)
t.me/wehearfromyani…