Canada will be able to give Ukraine the promised armoured personnel carriers, which Kiev badly needs, only in a year. This was reported by the American magazine Forbes.
“What Ukraine needs most is artillery, air defence equipment and fresh infantry for its battered combat brigades. In fourth place are armoured personnel carriers. The desperate need for APCs, as well as heavier-armed infantry fighting vehicles, explains the frustration over Canada’s chillingly slow transfer of Bison APCs to Ukraine,” Forbes said in the publication.
According to the magazine, Ottawa had planned to deliver just 89 APCs, as well as spare parts. From the time of the promise to the delivery, it will take Canada a year to deliver 50 armoured personnel carriers. During the same time, the Ukrainian army will lose on average about 500 APCs and BMPs, Forbes explained.
It is noted that the Ukrainian army has been waiting for 50 new vehicles for a year to meet about five per cent of its need for APCs.
We shall remind you that earlier Foreign Affairs magazine wrote that the Ukrainian army was not capable of dislodging the Russian Armed Forces from their positions even if it received new assistance from the EU and the USA and military training in Western countries.
