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It's gonna get worse by the day for the Russians as arms pour into partisans in the area. We are supplying lots of soviet era weapons from NATO stores that the locals are familiar with and they can even use captured Russian ammunition, best of all the Russians paid for them! They have identified this strategic weakness of logistics and supply in the Russian rear and are going after it, especially around western and northern Kyiv. Stop the supplies and you stop the attacks on the cities as the Russians run out of shells and missiles at the front. Ukrainians might even attack into Belarus in hit run attacks on supplies at the back of Vlad's line of advance on the capitol. Intelligence is key to this stuff and the Ukrainians are getting plenty from NATO and on the ground.Desperate Russian Rear-Area Troops Are Armoring Their Vehicles With Wood Logs
Ukrainian roads have quickly become a killing ground for Russian convoys moving through hostile territory amid a reportedly worsening logistics situation. While losses of heavily armored tanks and armored personnel carriers to anti-tank weapons are piling up, far less fortified vehicles are vulnerable even to small arms fire. Losses of light and unarmored vehicles trying to ferry men and materiel to advancing Russian forces are also increasing. As a result, Russian drivers have gotten creative in fortifying their trucks for the deadly roads leading ever deeper into Ukraine.
Images of Russian KAMAZ trucks appeared Saturday showing logs stacked on the front bumper as additional improvised armor. Crews even managed to retain their distinctive “V” markings seen on Russian vehicles in the sector. Other vehicles use wood boards and junk metal to protect their most vulnerable frontal areas.
The three vehicles look to be carrying PMP pontoon bridge elements, a valuable logistics asset and one of the Ukrainian forces’ preferred targets alongside fuel trucks. A PMP bridge was likely set up over the Pripyat River in the Belarusian side of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in the final days leading up to the war.
The logs themselves appear cut from trees right behind the vehicles and are likely intended to protect the trucks’ radiators from small arms fire. The last thing any Russian vehicle crew wants is to survive an ambush only for the truck to overheat and break down nearby.
This is far from the first instance of Russian troops trying to improve their vehicles’ armor for their invasion of Ukraine. At least one captured T-72 tank had sandbags on its turret in a vain attempt to augment its explosive reactive armor blocks. Russian units have also carried logs onboard as a means to help vehicles escape the suffocating mud long feared by observers as a threat to the Russian military's off-road operations. This is in addition to the cage-like improvised armor that began appearing on Russian tanks before the invasion in an attempt to counter-drone and anti-tank guided-missile attacks.
Desperate Russian Rear-Area Troops Are Armoring Their Vehicles With Wood Logs
Absent better security, Russian drivers are doing whatever they can to survive Ukrainian ambushes.www.thedrive.com
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