Substandard Chinese Tires Caused Huge Russian Convoy To Stop

Since February 24, Russian forces have circled Kyiv and fired missiles at the Ukrainian capital. However, despite think tanks suggesting the capital would have been taken in days, Russian forces have so far only been able to muster local attacks, Andrew Neil, former GB News host, and editor of the Spectator.

Photo Insert: “One of the reasons the huge Russian convoy was stuck outside Kyiv was that China supplied the tires for the vehicles. The vehicles themselves had been in storage for ages, the tires had very thin walls and blew out in the cold.”

Neil told Dylan Donnelly of Daily Express that Russia has been unable to invade the capital as they rely on Chinese vehicles which have been unused until the war. He revealed that the vehicles near Kyiv were “in storage for ages and the tires blew out in the cold.” Worse, Ukrainian forces have been taking down more than 10 Russian aircraft in a day.

He said: “One of the reasons the huge Russian convoy was stuck outside Kyiv was that China supplied the tires for the vehicles. The vehicles themselves had been in storage for ages, the tires had very thin walls and blew out in the cold.”

On March 6, Karl Muth, an academic based at the University of Chicago, took to Twitter and also blamed cheap Chinese tires for the slow advance of Russian vehicles. He said: “This is a tire I first encountered in Somalia and Sudan. It’s a bad Chinese copy of the excellent Michelin XZL military tire design.”

The Institute of the Study of War, a US think tank tracking the Ukraine invasion, said Russian forces were “likely unable to complete the encirclement of Kyiv or resume mobile offensive operations in north-eastern Ukraine in the near future.”

Russian forces have appeared to have been unable to cross the Irpin River, which runs along the western edge of Kyiv. As of Mar. 17, Thursday, Russian forces remain 20 km or more from the city center, ruling out the use of short-range artillery as they have used against the eastern cities of Mariupol and Kharkiv.

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