According to open source statistics, about a third of the supplied Bradleys armored vehicles that the United States has sent to Ukraine may already have been lost or destroyed, showing how difficult and expensive Kyiv’s counteroffensive against Russia is turning out to be.
The Biden administration declared in January that it would deliver to Ukraine no less than 50 Bradley Fighting Vehicles, an armored personnel carrier with powerful weapons and the capacity to carry around ten soldiers.
The 47th Mechanized Brigade of Ukraine is the only organization known to have received the vehicles, according to a Saturday New York Times report.
And according to leaked Pentagon records from February, a total of 99 of them were scheduled to be delivered to the 47th Brigade.
However, according to some reports, up to 109 of the vehicles, which were initially used on the battlefield in April, have been given by the United States.
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Bradleys Abandoned And Destroyed In Ukraine
Currently, 34 Bradleys have been visually confirmed as having been abandoned, damaged, or destroyed, according to Oryx, an open-source military research organization.
In a few days of fighting in June, when Ukraine formally launched its attempt to recover land taken by Russia following last year’s all-out invasion, more than a dozen people were killed or injured, as Insider previously reported.
Accordingly, it’s possible that up to a third of the Bradley vehicles have already been stolen or destroyed.
Losses were expected and seem to have been concentrated in the initial few days of the counteroffensive when Ukrainian soldiers attempted to cross severely mined ground controlled by firmly established Russian forces.
The vehicle has been hailed by Ukrainians for saving lives. I am standing here right now because of that, a soldier told ABC News last month. “We would all likely die after the first hit if we were using some Soviet armored personnel carrier.”
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Source: www.businessinsider.com