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Russia-Ukraine War - News and Developments PART 2

They can always use trucks.
Yes certainly they can use trucks instead, but imagine, how many trucks you need to transport an army tank division? It costs more time, more money, then trucks are more vulnerable to Ukraine artillery.

Tanks are seen on a freight train shortly after its arrival at a railway station in the Russian southern town of Matveev Kurgan, near the Russian-Ukrainian border in Rostov region, Russia, May 26, 2015. Picture taken with a mobile phone. REUTERS/Maria Tsvetkova
 
Jeez, what a spectacular clusterfu** by the Russians. When this war is over, there will be books written about this debacle.

With the loss of Kupiansk, the Russians loose their major rail network thus loosing the ability to bring in their supplies and reinforce their positions. My hats of to the Ukrainians and their determination. Russians on paper should have steam rolled the Ukrainians, but this war is the perfect example that what you see on paper does not translate to what's on the ground.
 






Russians on paper should have steam rolled the Ukrainians

Why? You think Russians are super men or something?

"Russia is never as strong as she looks; Russia is never as weak as she looks." (Attributed to multiple individuals, including Winston Churchill.)
 
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