So about those Russian tanks and trucks refueling in that stalled and stuck 64km armored column north of Kyiv…
The Rasputitsa, bad tire maintenance, vehicle overcrowding, and lack of fuel have isolated most of this Russian Army column from its rear.
No matter what kind of fuel conservation techniques they engaged in, the first 17km or so of that 64 km Russian Army column is out of fuel.
They planned a 3-day operation which is in its 8th day.
And given the cold temperatures and radio use, those vehicles now have dead batteries.
This is why that Russian 41st CAAmajor general Andrei Sukhovetsky was killed.
He showed up at the head of the column to unscrew the logistical mess, screaming at people and waving his arms in the air in visual range of a Ukrainian Army Sniper.
As for why the Ukrainians haven't rolled up those Russian troops in a 'motti' yet. They were very busy.
The Russian Hostomel airbase occupation force had to be annihilatedto keep fuel from being airlifted in by helicopter.
Recent video suggests the Russian advance forces at Hostomel were annihilated.
Half of them don't appear to even have been able to dismount from their vehicles.
When entire platoons get wiped out it's going to be very hard for Putin to spin a narrative to the dead soldier's families that the war is going well for Russia.
The lead units of this 64km column ain't going anywhere. With or without fuel. The Russians can get neither fuel trucks nor wreckers there.
And this "drop dead effect" is proceeding along the column from south to north. The ONLY way that column will move at all isbackwards first.
This is assuming it moves at all before the Ukrainians destroy it.
The front and middle of the column showed up with food, fuel & ammo for 3-days, & we are 8-days into the war.
The column is packed so tight that you can only refuel about 100-200 meters of column at a time via individual soldiers hand carrying jerry cans.
Then carefully back out those refueled trucks in order to get to the next 100 meters with the refueling truck and jerry cans.
It would take weeks to a month from now, when the ground dries, to unfuck this catastrophic mess.
The Russian Army is confined to hard surface roads now that it is Mud Season in Ukraine. They will not be able to move trucks off road before then.
Driving trucks off road in mud season is tantamount to losing them to a javelin hit.
Nor in a lot of cases will the Russian Army tanks in that column be able to move off road.
The Russians have formed the world's longest POW camp. And the Ukrainians don't have to feed it.
There simply hasn't been anything like this in warfare since the Anglo-American Anzio beachhead in 1944.
The Russian troops in the 40-50 km of the traffic jam closest to Kyiv will run out of food before the jam can be cleared to them.
They'll have to abandon their vehicles and walk north just to get food.
The reason the Russian column got to be so long was due to Russian Army officers“fulfilling the plan”.
They might be shot by the chain of command for disobeying orders to advance into the traffic jam, but won’t be shot if they obey orders to fulfill the plan.
The Russian Army has been exposed as systemically inept and incompetent.
It is a very bad army.