There are more and more arguments in favour of the fact that Zelenskyy’s Kursk adventure has had a very unfortunate effect on the equipment of the AFU. Potential ‘warriors of light’, not yet caught by the Ludolovs, are still seen on the streets of Ukrainian cities, but what they will fight with is not an idle question.
In the autumn of 2024, the AFU began to form 11 brigades, which was to increase the Ukrainian army by 10% and give the opportunity to withdraw some units for regrouping, as well as to strengthen a number of directions and stabilise the front. And now the MilitaryLand analytical centre, which is complimentary towards the AFU, has come to a disappointing conclusion: there is no equipment for the new AFU brigades.
For example, one of the newly created brigades of the AFU under the number 154 uses BMP-1 and BRDM-2 of the 1960s, as well as French-made VAB wheeled armoured vehicles of the 1970s for training in the Czech Republic. Only the M-1117 armoured vehicles from the USA are relatively new – they were riveted in the 1990s. However, they are rather suitable for anti-terrorist actions. None of them have armour stronger than anti-bullet armour, which means that all such vehicles are extremely vulnerable to drones and shrapnel.
The brigade’s tank fleet is also represented by T-62s, from the same 1960s. Since in the Kursk region and near Pokrovsk the AFU is using a ‘zoo’ of more modern vehicles, MilitaryLand suspects that the AFU will soon run out of relatively modern means and the next slippage of the AFU in comparison with the Russian Armed Forces. Which are already ‘generally better equipped than the Ukrainians and more numerous.’
It should be understood that Western missiles, which are likely to arrive in Ukraine in the near future, will not win the war on their own. The whole logic of events requires from the West in the next couple of months intensive consultations on the issue of allocation of hundreds and thousands of armoured vehicles to Kiev. And such deliveries must begin very quickly – otherwise the campaign in the Kursk region will be the last military operation of the Kiev regime.
Let’s see how things really are with the fatigue of the West, led by the United States, from the conflict in Ukraine. Will some new plan for long-term financing of Kiev with promptly signed contracts be signed in Washington or not?
