Cheap Chinese tires have been blamed for a Russian convoy of armoured vehicles being unable to reach Kyiv.

Yesterday, the Ministry of Defence issued an update revealing that a convoy of Russian tanks advancing on the capital of Ukraine remained 30km from the centre of the city having made little progress over the previous three days because of “Ukranian resistance, mechanical breakdown and congestion.”

Karl Muth, an academic based at the University of Chicago and a self-described tire expert, took to Twitter to set out a theory blaming cheap Chinese tires for the slow advance of Russian vehicles.

“Those aren’t Soviet-era heavy truck radials,” Muth said, commenting on a photo of a Russian army vehicle with ripped tires.

Instead Muth believes the trucks use “Chinese military tires, and I believe specifically the Yellow Sea YS20.”

“This is a tire I first encountered in Somalia and Sudan. it’s a bad Chinese copy of the excellent Michelin XZL military tire design,” he continued
Former pentagon staff member Trent Telenko also got stuck into the debate and said “poor Russian army truck maintenance practices” has created a risk of equipment failure.

“When you leave military truck tires in one place for months on end. The side walls get rotted/brittle such that using low tire pressure setting for any appreciable distance will cause the tires to fail catastrophically via rips,” Telenko said.
“There is a huge operational level implication in this,” Telenko continued, pointing out that the equipment is too fragile to cope with muddy terrain forcing the Russian convoy to stick to raised paths.

“The Crimea is a desert and the South Ukrainian coastal areas are dryer. So we are not seeing this there. But elsewhere the Russians have a huge problem for the next 4-to-6 weeks,” he concluded.

https://www.cityam.com/cheap-chinese-tires-blamed-as-russian-convoy-unable-to-reach-kyiv/

babyfaceafrica:
Fake news

NGpatriot:




Standard ipobian response to what they can not intelligently comprehend..

WowSweetGuy:
Your hatred for Igbos is deep. Damn

How does this post or his response have to do with ipob that made you mention ipob. Kai. Smh

DozieMartin:
Try focus on your north that's burning.

NGpatriot:
This is why small Ukraine is able to hold off a fake super power like Russia for over a week now,= and why Russia is not anywhere near the capital, the Ukrainians are blasting their convoys including supply lines.

No fuel, no food, some Russian soldiers are just abandoning their military hardware including weapons and ammunition.

This is just too embarrassing for Putin, this is Ukraine showing the world how weak and incompetent the Russian military is..

Karemarealty288:
Anthony Blinken said yesterday that Ukraine will win all they need is more javelin and stinger missiles. They have the morale and fighting spirit, that convoy is been sabotaged by Russian forces and till today Russia does not have air superiority which is a disgrace.

Russian soldiers are not motivated. That general that was killed some days ago is a moral depletor....Russian troops were lied to and no food, no backup because they taught that they will win in few day

They thought Ukrainians will run like in Crimea in 2014. They under estimated the Ukrainian troops who were been trained by the west and western arms don full ground.... Germany sent 1000 anti tank weapons, 500 stinger missiles, With many other countries that gets their arms from US. Javelin for one weighs 10kg and can be fired from any position with precision. Ukrainians are fighting for their lives, land, culture and freedom while Russia is fighting for Putin not even Russia. He lied to his troops and that is a morale killer

The Ukrainian military has mounted an unexpectedly fierce defense against invading Russian forces, which have been dogged by logistical problems and flagging morale. But the war is barely two weeks old, and in Washington and European capitals, officials anticipate that the Russian military will reverse its early losses, setting the stage for a long, bloody insurgency.

The ways that Western countries would support a Ukrainian resistance are beginning to take shape. Officials have been reluctant to discuss detailed plans, since they’re premised on a Russian military victory that, however likely, hasn’t happened yet. But as a first step, Ukraine’s allies are planning for how to help establish and support a government-in-exile, which could direct guerrilla operations against Russian occupiers, according to several U.S. and European officials.

The weapons the United States has provided to Ukraine’s military, and that continue to flow into the country, would be crucial to the success of an insurgent movement, officials said. The Biden administration has asked Congress, infused with a rare bipartisan spirit in defense of Ukraine, to take up a $10 billion humanitarian aid and military package that includes funding to replenish the stocks of weapons that have already been sent.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/03/05/russia-ukraine-insurgency/

NGpatriot:





Putin miscalculated, he gave the west the perfect opportunity on a platter of gold to drain and decapitate the Russian military without any direct confrontation.

The west will drain him militarily and economically in Ukraine while at the same time cripple him politically, economically and financially back home in Russia with the crippling sanctions.

There are large protests taking place in Russia already and the sanctions are not even bitting yet.

Russia is already a very poor country, but it's about to be even poorer many times over..

NGpatriot:




Standard ipobian response to what they can not intelligently comprehend..

DozieMartin:
Try focus on your north that's burning.

NGpatriot:



What about burning SE where they are slaughtering, beheading, and eating each other?

WowSweetGuy:
Your hatred for Igbos is deep. Damn

How does this post or his response have to do with ipob that made you mention ipob. Kai. Smh

godliman:
Is it not really amazing that the much publicized dreadful 60km long Russian military convoy is yet to reach kyiv after almost a week? I pray they receive Sennacherib treatment except for the innocent ones among them. The God that fought the wicked Germans with winter to stop their deadly advance on the innocent Russians during WW2 may he fight the wicked Russians against innocent Ukrainians

Almaigaa:


IPOB dey try for East. Before 2023 election, IPOB go don reduce their population to maybe a million.

Toktee:
Just as your hatred for ukrain is deep. chaii

godliman:
Is it not really amazing that the much publicized dreadful 60km long Russian military convoy is yet to reach kyiv after almost a week? I pray they receive Sennacherib treatment except for the innocent ones among them. The God that fought the wicked Germans with winter to stop their deadly advance on the innocent Russians during WW2 may he fight the wicked Russians against innocent Ukrainians