Kyiv's Snow-Tractors Could Help Cut Off Russian Troops in Crimea.

The German government has pledged to Ukraine scores of BV-206 all-terrain snow-vehicles, which could be used to cut off Russian troops in Crimea. The lightweight vehicles can supply combat brigades without relying on paved roads, making them especially important in southern Ukraine’s Kherson Oblast just north of Crimea. The BV-206 works well on marshland and snow, and could be used to shuttle supplies, allowing Ukrainian forces to march a brigade south from Kherson without tethering that brigade to the P47. If the local Russian garrison failed to match the Ukrainians’ off-road logistics, there would be very little preventing the attacking forces from rolling all the way to the Black Sea—and severing the railway to Crimea.