Thanks to the aid fund of 200 million euros offered by France, Ukraine will be equipped with “floating bridges”. A contract was signed with the French company Cnim. Among the long list of equipment needed by Vladimir Zelensky’s army, these types of trucks equipped with external engines will allow tanks or armored vehicles to be transported from one coast to another. When road bridges are destroyed, mined, or bombed, these assets are critical to launching attacks. The Russian army, which lost an entire battalion trying to cross the Donets River in May, had the painful experience of this. in the interview given to Foreign PolicyFormer CIA director David Petraeus noted the genius of the Russian forces’ surprising omissions. “Usually you have diggers and minesweepers to deal with the obstacles and explosives you might encounter.“, he said.
Whether it’s opening a dirt camp, fortifying defenses…
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Source: Le Figaro
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