I am no military expert but it seems kind of dumb to send 40 miles of military vehicles up one road

[Quixote1818]

that could get blocked and the ENTIRE convoy stuck. Which has happened. They are saying Ukraine has hit it and I believe they said a downed bridge has blocked it. That area of Ukraine is also about the only place with a crap load of dense forests preventing the convoy from going off road on wide open farmlands covering most of the country. I did hear that everything is thawing and so the ground is super muddy everywhere making it hard for even tanks to go through the mud. They could have split that convoy up 40 times and had 40 separate convoys 1 mile long going in to Ukraine on 40 different roads. Instead they aren't getting really any benefit from that 40 miles of vehicles and they may lose the entire convoy before long.

[blm]

1. Or, it's distracting focus from other planned attacks.

[at140]

2. Correct. 40 miles long convoy is the Trojan Horse

which draws media attention while other cities are being bombed.

[Kaleva]

11. What good would it do to distract the media?

Despite the convoy, most everyone following the war is well aware of cities bring bombed. And we know because the media reports it. There have been numerous threads here discussing it

[at140]

12. Any time allocated to news about the convoy is

news time diverted from the bombings.

[Kaleva]

13. How does you bring distracted affect the war?

[Quixote1818]

4. Seems 10 miles of vehicles would have accomplished that.

And there is still plenty of attention to what is going on all over Ukraine.

[Hoyt]

3. So far, it's mostly a threat, seeking early capitulation.

We can hope that the early problems with troop movements will perhaps result in some kind of pact. I don’t see Russia leaving without something like portions of Ukraine along Russian border. But, who knows?

[SunSeeker]

5. You almost get the feeling those Russian soldiers don't want to reach Kyiv.

[2naSalit]

6. You might.

[RockRaven]

7. Whilst contemplating this convoy story the past couple days I've seen it in the news, I learned

something which I had not been aware of before. Unlike many of the other American military aircraft which are commonly known, widely produced, and decades old... the A-10 has only ever been operated by the US. None of our allies have them. Not even NATO allies. Not a single one, not a single plane, ever. At least according to Wikipedia.

[Dial H For Hero]

8. Ukraine does have the SU-25 however, which in many ways is comparable to the A-10.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_Su-25

[WarGamer]

9. IMHO...

That convoy is waiting for Kiev to be surrounded.

It's supplies for the siege army.

[OnDoutside]

10. There are bound to be fuel tankers in that convoy, so why not target

them in hit and run attacks ? Even one attack could do a lot of damage and collateral damage.

[Tommymac]

14. Putin assumed his troops would be greeted as Saviors by the Ukrainian People.

And we all know what 'assume' stands for - (making an ass out of you and me.)

He forgot about one of the principle rules of Military Engagements - no plan survives contact with the Enemy.