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Good piece on the importance of rail for Russian resupply, and why they haven’t been able to take advantage of the rail network.

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/how-ukra...ck-2804108

Ukraine -- unlike Western Europe -- uses the same gauge of railroad as Russia. That infrastructure, though, can't be used to bring supplies until troops control the towns that sit on them, in particular key junctions such as Kharkiv, Sumy and Chernihiv in the north, or Kherson, Mykolaiv and Zaporizhzhia in the south.

The problem for Russia is that its military needs to take major cities to access the rail network, Vershinin said by telephone from Virginia. "The other problem is that the Russians have not brought enough manpower," he said. "This is a brobdingnagian country, and every time they need to take a city they also have to leave force behind to hold it."

[BostonCard]

Good piece on the importance of rail for Russian resupply, and why they haven’t been able to take advantage of the rail network.

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/how-ukra...ck-2804108

Ukraine -- unlike Western Europe -- uses the same gauge of railroad as Russia. That infrastructure, though, can't be used to bring supplies until troops control the towns that sit on them, in particular key junctions such as Kharkiv, Sumy and Chernihiv in the north, or Kherson, Mykolaiv and Zaporizhzhia in the south.

The problem for Russia is that its military needs to take major cities to access the rail network, Vershinin said by telephone from Virginia. "The other problem is that the Russians have not brought enough manpower," he said. "This is a brobdingnagian country, and every time they need to take a city they also have to leave force behind to hold it."