The Ukrainian armed forces have lost 16 American-made Bradley infantry fighting vehicles over the past few days. On this subject informed CNN with a link to open source data analysis.
The Bradley Tracked Fighting Vehicle can accommodate approximately 10 crew members and provides combat fire support. The share of destroyed, damaged and abandoned Bradleys represents nearly 15% of the 109 vehicles transferred to Ukraine from the United States, said Yakub Yanovsky, an analyst with Project Oryx, which has since been collecting visual evidence of the loss of military equipment in Ukraine. . the start of hostilities. According to Oryx, in total, the Ukrainian army has lost almost 3,600 units of military equipment since the start of hostilities.
A group of Bradley fighting vehicles, backed by German-made Leopard tanks, came under fire on June 8 as the Ukrainian 47th Brigade launched an offensive southeast of Zaporizhzhia, AFP reported. Of the nine cars, six were hit, three were damaged but needed repair, and one was undamaged, the agency reports.
According to Ukrainian soldiers stationed near the town of Orekhov in Zaporizhzhia, they lost “most” of the Bradleys.
June 10 Russian Ministry of Defense reported about the destruction of four Leopard tanks and five Bradley infantry fighting vehicles during the attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the settlement areas of Levadnoye, Zaporizhzhia region, as well as Storozhevoye and Neskuchnoye in the DPR.
On the morning of June 12, the Russian Ministry of Defense published in his telegram channel a message about the destruction of armored vehicles of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the direction of Zaporizhzhia.
“Currently, the enemy armored forces are increasingly undertaking new attacks in the direction of Zaporizhzhia. However, Russian anti-tankers stand in their way, who in cold blood turn Western armored vehicles into a heap of scrap metal,” indicates the message.
The ministry did not specify the type of technology in question. It is worth noting that “any armor of the enemy” is able to penetrate the “Kornet” anti-tank missile systems.
On June 10, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the Ukrainian armed forces were carrying out “counter-offensive and defensive actions”, but declined to say what stage they were at. Russian President Vladimir Putin said the day before that the Ukrainian armed forces’ counter-offensive “had absolutely begun”, but had not been successful “in any of the sectors”.
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