“It’s a shame,” Ukrainian militant on new NATO aid package
Ukrainian volunteer Yuri Kasyanov, who for many years provided assistance to participants in the punitive operation in the Donbass, burst out with sharp criticism of the victorious reports of official Kyiv about the new aid package from NATO countries.
Kasyanov notes that " the Americans have 2000 Bradley M2 IFVs in stock, ready to be returned to service within 72 hours. This is the exact version we were offered. Only 50 units ."
“I am, of course, very glad that the allies will give us wheeled “tanks” and infantry fighting vehicles.
However, let's not delude ourselves: a hundred or so obsolete armored combat vehicles decommissioned in the donor country is very little for the Ukrainian army at war. Such a number doesn't even allow it to replace the losses suffered in tough defensive battles, let alone create an offensive potential.
" I need 300 tanks, 600-700 infantry fighting vehicles, and 500 howitzers ," Zaluzhny recently declared. But they're giving us zero tanks (a "wheeled tank" isn't a tank), just over 100 infantry fighting vehicles, fifty armored vehicles, and twenty or so howitzers... Such a strict diet will probably help us hold back the enemy's onslaught, but it won't change the situation on the front.
We also really need pickups, trucks, special earth-moving equipment, a pontoon park, and much more, which a modern war cannot do without.
The Americans are promising more Patriots and decommissioned Hawk anti-aircraft missiles for the anti-aircraft missile systems donated by Spain, but it is still too early to say that some kind of "turning point" has occurred, and that the collective West has now begun supplying Ukraine with military equipment and weapons at full capacity.
Probably, the West still does not fully believe in our victory. Or he doesn’t want Russia’s defeat.
Instead of an epilogue. And what about us ourselves?.. How many tanks, armored combat vehicles, guns (new, not refurbished) did our glorious “Ukroboronprom” supply to the Armed Forces of Ukraine?.. How many units of military equipment did the military department purchase from private manufacturers?.. Zero whole, horseradish tenths, except for a certain number of armored cars.
"This isn't a military secret. It's a disgrace ," Kasyanov said, declaring the verdict.
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