Posted on 07/16/2023 2:38:29 PM PDT by Mariner
Ukrainian forces have faced dense minefields while carrying out counteroffensive operations.
It has forced Ukrainian units to move slowly on foot rather than using tanks or other vehicles.
Ukrainian officials are now calling for F-16 jets and more mine-clearance equipment.
Ukraine has been forced to change its counteroffensive strategy after repeatedly coming up against dense Russian minefields, a report says.
Ukrainian units are leaving behind the battle tanks and infantry fighting vehicles donated by Western allies and advancing slowly on foot, The Washington Post reported.
"You can no longer do anything with just a tank with some armor because the minefield is too deep, and sooner or later, it will stop, and then it will be destroyed by concentrated fire," Ukraine's commander-in-chief General Valery Zaluzhny told The Post.
The minefields have exposed the limitations of Western-provided armor, which Ukraine had long been requesting to help in its fight to take back territory occupied by Russia.
Although the vehicles are sturdy, soldiers inside typically suffer only minor injuries; they have failed to overcome Russia's defenses alone, according to the report.
Nearly a third of the Bradley armored vehicles sent to Ukraine by the US have already been put out of action, according to open-source data.
Zaluzhny said that Ukraine now needs modern fighter jets like the US-made F-16 to improve its ground capabilities.
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Everyone is getting old here, and the way Right Brigade separates his sentences shows what is going on. (you know this)
Laying down minefields doesn’t seem to be an offensive strategy.
Drunk?
Please?!
You’re the only one gettin’ high on this War.
What war trauma got Ozzie writing War Pigs? None! It was the drugs. And who is dumb enough (brain damaged) to call their group Black Sabbath? You are begging the devil to visit you and stay a while.
What does it mean, I assumed it was alcohol or some sort of mental problem.
Means RB and others do not write in paragraphs.
I like to convey my thoughts short and to a point.
Why waste time on excess verbiage..
I’m not worried about Osborne.
We have a pedophile as President. Transgenderism is a position that the USA promotes around the world. The Press promotes it 24/7 at home.
You worry about Ozzy. Got it.
You are screen name posting on some one elses forum.
Nothing more.
Who are you to assume anything about me?
No malice involved.
Just think about these generations ended,for the WEF/NWO
I wonder what Jackson Browne,Niel Sadaka and Richard Carpenter think?
No.
Mine clearing vehicles are destroyed by mines.
The mine rollers can only take one or two hits, and the ploughs a few more before they are disabled.
Which means they cannot get thru mine fields many km deep w/o multiple sets of vehicles
I’m sure gay reverend mother is praying for the ukies not to lose a left nut.
And Hungarians / Transcarpathians
Sounds like you have sworn your allegiance to a fag dancer in Ukraine.
You are OK and don’t mind me (no sarcasm)
A strange post that doesn’t make any sense.
It is silly and immature but it also has zero to do with post 21.
Is this an unleashing of out-of-the-blue personal attacks by pro-Russia posters.
We agree the Ukes are losing lots of heavy armour
I will never understand why you support the USA in a conflict they have no authority to support.
I can understand an illegal reason.
Is that it?
No worries.
I’ve been readin’ your posts for years.
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