Armored personnel carriers will be transferred to units fighting in the Kursk region of the Russian Federation. Early batches of Strykers were sufficient to equip the 80 and 82 air assault brigades.
Ukraine will receive bombs, missiles, artillery shells, as well as at least 212 high-speed eight-wheeled Stryker armored personnel carriers. These weapons are being provided as part of a previously announced aid package from the United States worth $425 million, Forbes reports.
“Excluding the approximately two dozen Strykers the Ukrainians lost to Russian fire, the additional vehicles will increase the Ukrainian Stryker fleet to nearly 400. Kyiv donated an 18-ton vehicle with a capacity of 11 people in air assault brigades – usually equipped with three battalions of 31 vehicles each,” the report said.
It was noted that the armored personnel carriers will be transferred to units fighting in the Kursk region of the Russian Federation. Early batches of Strykers were sufficient to equip the 80 and 82 air assault brigades, each of which contributed battalions to the Kursk offensive in early August. The Third Air Assault Brigade, 95, is also located at Kursk and does not yet have a Stryker.
The nimble Stryker, with a top speed of 60 mph, is ideal for the chaotic urban combat and fast-moving road attacks typical of Russian warfare, and was a hallmark of last spring’s Battle of Volchansk in northeastern Ukraine, the newspaper said.
We remind you that the US Department of Defense has announced an additional aid package to meet Ukraine’s critical security and defense needs worth $425 million.
We remind you that this year the United States financed the creation of 800 mobile fire groups to fight “martyrdom”.
Source: korrespondent
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