
Ukraine is getting more armored vehicles in latest US assistance package
14/06/2023 08:31:33 World
The US Defense Department on Tuesday announced it will supply 15 more Bradley fighting vehicles to Ukraine, just days after a report said Kyiv had lost multiple US-supplied armored vehicles in its counteroffensive against Russian invaders.
The Bradley fighting vehicle, which moves on tracks rather than wheels, can hold around 10 troops and is used to transport personnel into battle while providing supporting fire.
The Bradleys are part of a $325 million assistance package — the 40th presidential drawdown — that includes 10 Stryker armored personnel carriers, ammunition for surface-to-air missile systems and HIMARS rocket systems; Stinger shoulder-fired anti-aircraft systems and Javelin anti-armor systems; 155mm and 105mm artillery rounds, and small arms ammunition.
“The United States and our allies and partners will stand united with Ukraine, for as long as it takes,” US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement Tuesday. Some context: Dutch open-source intelligence website Oryx, which has been collecting visual evidence of military equipment losses in Ukraine since Russia’s full-scale invasion began on February 24, 2022, reported earlier this week that 16 of Ukraine's Bradleys were either destroyed or damaged and abandoned in fighting in eastern Ukraine in recent days.