M-55S. Wikimedia Commons The Ukrainian army doesn’t say no to armored vehicles. Whatever surplus tanks, fighting vehicles, armored personnel carriers and reconnaissance vehicles some ally offers, the ...
Tag: Brigades
Ukraine Wanted Whole Brigades Of Western Tanks. It’s Getting Fractions Of Them, Instead.
A Canadian Leopard 2A4 arrives in Poland ‘en route’ to Ukraine on Feb. 5. Anita Anand The Ukrainian government’s ambition, months ago, was to get whole brigades of new tanks from its Weste...
The Ukrainian Army Could Form Three New Heavy Brigades With All These Tanks And Fighting Vehicles It’s Getting
A British Army Challenger 2 tank testing new camouflage back in 2014. Crown copyright A deluge of new armored vehicles should allow the Ukrainian army to form three new, NATO-style heavy brigades. Arg...
It Took Just Two Weeks For One Of The Ukrainian Army’s Newest Brigades To Get American-Made M-2 Fighting Vehicles
U.S. Army M-2 fighting vehicles and M-1 tanks at Grafenwoehr training area in Germany in 2018. U.S. Army photo Just two weeks after the administration of U.S. president Joe Biden announced it would do...
The Ukrainian Army’s Jaeger Brigades Are Its Middleweight Forest-Fighters
71st Jaeger Brigade troopers. Ukrainian army photo The Ukrainian army grew fast in the months before, and after, a 200,000-man Russian army rolled into northern, eastern and southern Ukraine, widening...
Bakhmut Is ‘Soaked In Blood’ As Eight Of Ukraine’s Best Brigades Battle 40,000 Former Russian Prisoners
Volodymyr Zelensky in Bakhmut. Office of the president of Ukraine Russian mercenary firm The Wagner Group since this summer has been trying, and so far failing, to capture the town of Bakhmut in easte...
As Russian Troops Invaded, Ukraine Scrambled To Form New Mechanized Brigades. A Few Months Later, They Were On The Front.
A 66th Mechanized Brigade M-113. Ukrainian army photo Mechanized brigades with their heavily-armed infantry, scores of armored vehicles plus organic artillery and air-defenses are the backbone of a mo...
Russian Brigades In Southern Ukraine Depended On One Major Bridge. Now They’re Cut Off From Resupply.
The Kerch Strait bridge burns. Maxar imagery Two days after a powerful explosion rocked the $4-billion rail and road bridge across the Kerch Strait, the narrow waterway separating the Russian-occupied...
Rivers At Their Backs And Ukrainian Brigades Closing In, A Lot Of Russian Troops Might Need To Learn To Swim
The Ukrainian 128th Mountain Brigade. Ukrainian defense ministry photo Russian paratroopers are fleeing their positions in a critical sector of the front in southern Ukraine. While at least one Ukrain...
Ukrainian Brigades Have Punched Through Russian Lines Around Kharkiv
Ukrainian troops assault a Russian position in the east. Via social media Eight days after Ukrainian forces counterattacked in southern Ukraine on Aug. 30, advancing miles toward Russian-occupied Kher...
It Seems Ukraine Is Struggling To Form Tank Brigades
A Ukrainian tank crew in action. Ukrainian army photo The Ukrainian army’s tank brigades are spread thin. That could help to explain why the army’s highly anticipated counteroffensive in southern Ukra...
One Of Ukraine’s Best Brigades Defends One Of Its Most Vulnerable Cities
92nd Mechanized Brigade Photo via Wikimedia Commons The Ukrainian government this month put into effect a new law creating a framework for everyday civilians to join territorial defense battalions. Ar...