This is in the direction of Poltava which is not far away from Kremenchuk, an important crossing on Dnipro. Potentially a very attractive direction for attack if Russia was capable of conducting and supporting such penetration away from railway lines. Approximately 300km which severs supply lines to all forces in Donbas. Arguably what Russia should have done instead of idiotic reckless push toward Kiyv and equally pointless grind toward Izyum.
That is real road "quality" there. Those roads are shit. Especially when you consider at least one of them is part of a road system in Kharkiv, which is Ukraine's second largest city, with 1.4 million people. As for your comment claiming Ukraine has better roads than Russia, it is ridiculous on the face of it, the Russians have spent quite a lot over the past decade modernizing their road infrastructure. So it is way less bad than it used to be in Soviet times. Compare that piece of shit Ukrainian road with the M12 Federal Highway under construction which passes through Kazan, a city in Russia with 1.2 million people.
Good luck finding a single road in Ukraine which looks remotely like that.
Ukraine's road infrastructure is certainly not in the level of a country like Iraq which had actual proper modern roads courtesy of Saddam. For example.
And Iraq is a country with less population than Ukraine which no one would ever claim as a developed nation.
The truck is a MAN L2000 - 7,5t class. However it has comparable ground pressure with that of a military 6x6 like Ural-4320 due to number of axles and tyre size. Actually the 6x6 is likely to have a lower figure even at double the maximum mass (15t).
Exactly. The Russians have plenty of military trucks to use if they want to use them. And their industry is not lacking in production. KAMAZ produced 44,148 civilian trucks in 2021 for example. And the sanctions did not reduce these numbers since they even managed to increase production in 2022.
I could provide technical explanation for structural strength of the roads of various categories, the parameters of trucks etc. and how much can be carried over hard and soft surfaces but that would make for one boring off-topic and I already wasted too much time writing this. I literally do stuff like this for a living.
Roads in majority of Russia are significantly worse than those in Ukraine and Russian military trucks are designed to drive on them - which they do. The question is whether you've actually ever been in Ukraine or Russia.
Maybe Ukraine's roads look amazing by the standards of the former Eastern Block, but they would look shit in any modern country.
And sorry but even Russia's roads do not look as bad.
WW2 operations followed rail lines primarily because rail lines connected important settlements and organized all of infrastructure - including roads. Rail was heavily under-utilized by Germany because of gauge difference as well as lack of preparation. Those lines primarily served as orientation. In WW2 maps of Soviet territory were imprecise or non-existent. You stuck to what you knew so as not to get lost or stuck in enemy territory. Again - someone who has never learnt how a military mission is planned and conducted will never understand it.
So you claim. And yet the Germans even managed to operate rail based heavy artillery in Soviet territory. The fact is both sides used rail in the war, just because the Germans were much worse at it for several reasons does not mean it wasn't critical for their effort. Germany also had a critical shortage of trucks.
The damages were minor and repairs weren't a technical challenge. In fact in Japan or China it would have been done much faster because Russia's capabilities in that area are far from world's best.
Russia still beat Ukraine in infrastructure development in a long way, and that is all that matters in this conflict. And trying to compare Russia with Chinese or Japanese infrastructure metrics, which are basically the best in the world, is a bit of a stretch. The fact is the Russians do just fine. They build infrastructure faster than the US at least. Yet you seem to think they are bad at it. Well the truth is they are not. And have not been for over a decade.
