The vehicles don’t fulfill Ukraine’s request for combat tanks. But they provide a strategic war-fighting capability as the season change brings muddy terrain and Ukraine launches a campaign to recapture territory taken by Russia.
Russian forces are escalating their onslaught on Bakhmut, bringing new levels of death and devastation to the already-wrecked city in east Ukraine.In a combined arms fight, for example, Ukrainian forces could fire rounds of artillery and airstrikes into a Russian stronghold, and then quickly move infantry troops in armored vehicles to the front for a ground assault to take advantage of Russia’s weakened state.
White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters Friday that the Bradley would be helpful as the fight escalates in the eastern Donbas region, where there is “a lot of farmland, a lot of open ground.” The decision, he said, reflects Ukraine’s current military needs, but is “also taking a look at what the fight is likely to be.”
The U.S. and other allies are also using the winter months to send large amounts of weapons and equipment that Ukraine will need when fighting heats up in the spring.Ukraine has persistently asked for tanks, but the U.S. and other allies have resisted sending the heavier, more powerful and complex armored vehicles., for example, carries a far more powerful gun and is more heavily armored, but weighs a lot more and uses jet fuel rather than diesel.
The U.S. and other Western nations have trained and practiced for decades how to move troops in combat so that critical food, fuel and supplies keep pace with the forces. Russia’s inability to do that was on display early in the war when its long troopWhen will the vehicles arrive?
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