Of course, they are meant for fighting, but, does the Ukrainian military truly know how to utilize them correctly?
Nearly a third of the Bradley armored vehicles that the United States has provided to Ukraine may have already been lost or damaged, according to open source data, demonstrating the extent to which Kyiv’s counteroffensive against Russia is proving to be a hard and costly slog.
In January, the Biden administration announced it was sending Ukraine no fewer than 50 Bradley Fighting Vehicles, an armored personnel carrier that pairs heavy firepower with the ability to transport about 10 soldiers.
The New York Times reported Saturday that Ukraine’s 47th Mechanized Brigade is the only unit known to have received the vehicles. And leaked Pentagon documents from February indicate the 47th Brigade was due to receive a total of 99 of them. But other reporting suggests the United States has delivered as many as 109 of the vehicles, which were first deployed on the battlefield in April.
Oryx, an open-source military research group, reports that 34 Bradleys have now been visually confirmed as having been abandoned, damaged, or destroyed. As Insider previously reported, more than a dozen were lost or disabled in a few days of fighting in June, when Ukraine formally announced its bid to retake territory conquered by Russia following last year’s full-scale invasion.
The news is putting a rosy spin on this, but, we keep giving them all sorts of weapons and weapon platforms and they keep blowing through them, and then wanting more and more, and Biden, the Democrats, and many neocon Republicans are happy to comply, rather then spending the money here at home, along with depleting all our own stockpiles. And for what? “Saving Democracy in Ukraine”? The government, including Zelenskyy, are corrupt and almost as bad as Putin. They are no saints. What’s the endgame? Zelenskyy and others are talking about not just kicking Russia out of Ukraine, but, Crimea as well. Where does it stop? How much more will we give them?
Limited battlefield progress hasn’t spooked western allies, Kyiv says
Despite an underwhelming first month of Ukraine’s much-anticipated summer push to liberate territory from Russian forces, Kyiv says its Western backers are not pressuring the country for quick results.
Since the Ukrainian counteroffensive began in June, the fighting has proved tougher than some anticipated, with progress being measured in hundreds of meters as opposed to tens of kilometers.
Ukraine had hoped to use the push to expel a significant amount of Russian forces from Ukrainian soil and turn the tide of the war.
Another offensive, another bit of underperfoming. It’s almost like most Disney movies these days. Saturday was day 508 of the “war” which seems to be slow-marching. What is actually going on, other than Western nations, including some like Japan and South Korea, giving more money and weapons to feed “limited battlefield progress”?
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