40 mile long convoy has been stopped for days. Probably not the only reason, but interesting theory. Also seems like the average Russian conscript is not very enthusiastic for this war and may give up or sabotage their equipment. https://www.yahoo.com/news/cheap-chinese-tires-might-explain-094313721.html
%% LOL you maybe right\ FOX news said UK reported was mechanical problems. That could mean it was chicom tires, but may not want to offend chicom ad buyers? Ukranian air force knw how to make minc meat also. My bro when he was in US army rangers , said the old helicopter gunship nicknamed ''PUFF the magjc dragon'' could put a bullet in every foot in a football field''
"Those aren't Soviet-era heavy truck radials. Chinese military tires, and I believe specifically the Yellow Sea YS20. 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..." There's classic China for you. They can't actually engineer anything, so they try to copy cheaply.
The sabotage your own vehicles is massive in there. Like, how exciting that is, to drive into your own death, for no clear reason. Much easier to watch over your own troops, when they're all in one place. And what else a simple Russian 20 y.o can do, when he sees the crematoriums of Belarus working 24/7 non stop. The convoy could also have been another bluff. To cause fear, or, https://www.livescience.com/wwii-ghost-army.html Some say, that there's plenty of Russian vehicles, that are beraly moving. Given the fact that their elite troops were already send in.