Another reason, as noted by & nbsp; Stark, was & nbsp; rains, which turned the roads into “ mud rivers of meter depth. The author claims that the lack of fuel and ammunition greatly delayed the advance of the troops, which allowed the Red Army to gather forces and drive the invaders away from the capital. Operation Typhoon, during which the Nazis intended to take Moscow, failed due to problems with the logistics of the Wehrmacht. Источник aif.ru ''

Earlier it became known about the death of the oldest veteran of the Great Patriotic War in Russia Timofey Marzoev, he died in North Ossetia. Florian Stark expressed this opinion in an article for the German edition of Die Welt. According to him, this is the main reason for the failure of the offensive.