Russian Troops Experience A Familiar Obstacle, ‘Rasputitsa’

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Russia, according to Ukraine and many Western commentators, is about to unleash a fresh, massive onslaught, but it will probably run into a mud pit, as reported by CNBC.

Rasputitsa 

The war-torn country’s fields and rural roads are anticipated to become impassable for troops and tanks in the coming weeks as frozen ground conditions in Ukraine give way to a thaw.

From Napoleon Bonaparte’s invasion of Russia in 1812 was famously slowed by the mud in Ukraine, to...

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