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Russian forces captured the M2A2 Bradley IFV supplied by the US in battles on the Avdeevka front in the Donetsk People’s Republic. This is the first confirmed case of the entire vehicle to be taken to the Russian rear areas.
According to the reports from the front, the IFV was shot by Russian forces on the northern flank of Avdeevka about two weeks ago. It was abandoned by Ukrainian servicemen, but its evacuation was not possible due to heavy Ukrainian fire. Amid their advance on the front, Russian soldiers dragged it to the rear. The footage confirms that the vehicle was captured in a quite good condition.
The captured IFV was likely abandoned by the 47th Separate Mechanized Brigade “Magura” of the Ukrainian Ground Forces. The unit was formed in 2022. It engaged in the failed Ukrainian counteroffensive in the Zaporozhie region, where it suffered heavy losses both in personnel and military equipment. After Ukrainian defeat on the southern frontlines, the Brigade was deployed in the Avdeevka region. According to open sources, the unit has already lost at least 42 M2A2 Bradley IFVs.
Here’s how Ukrainian troops are dragging their heavily damaged Bradley IFVs supplied by the US with the help of M88 recovery vehicles supplied by the US:
The decision to transfer Bradley IFVs to the Kiev regime was made in early January. The first batch of several dozen vehicles was included in the next package of military assistance. More Bradley IFVs were included to new packages. In total, it was planned to transfer more than 180 vehicles to the war-torn country.
The first Ukrainian Bradleys entered the battles in early June during Kiev’s counteroffensive. In the very first battles, the Ukrainian units suffered heavy losses in various vehicles. The Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) lost almost two dozen Bradleys during one battle near Malaya Tokmachka in the Zaporozhye direction. Losses have increased significantly as a result of attacks on Ukrainian meat grinder assaults.
Dozens of Bradleys were left burning on the battlefields. Most of them were badly damaged, and the Russian military did not have the need and opportunity to move the vehicles entirely to the rear areas. Therefore, they took various components from the damaged IFVs, if it was necessary for study.
“вряд ли” pronounced bradley, in russian means “unlikely”, “probably not”. nomen est omen as they say and $lumville is waltzing into the gaping maw everywhere the hubris bloated brainless golem lurches. karma is king. onward to the end of the disgusting anglozionazi empire of….scrap.
we might add 2 or more m88a1 retrievers have also been lost to russian troops.
“game changers”, remember? lol
what the us@forgot is in fact a ‘ video game-changer’ that is devoid of reality!
…thank you nato, for the fast delivery!
now we are waiting for your planes…
another war prize courtesy of u.s. war hawks. in the end putin will achieve denazification, demilitarization, de-natoficaton and also war reparation.
ukranian version of the horse and buggy
nobody cares. ukrainian thanks russia for the thousands of armored vehicles left behind by nazi ruzzians 😆😆😆
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oy vey 🕎
man, you are one stoopid sob even by nafo standards.
you are literally embarrassing the west. keep it coming, bud.
you sure this is the first time captured an m2a2 bradley ifv? look for “груз-800 отряд керчь захватил бредли в идеальном состоянии!” on yt, it’s a video from july this year when russian troops captured one of these. so this is at least now the 2nd one they captured, glory to the russian army!
what an amazing time to be alive, i red about recoveries on the eastern front at the battle of kursk. this was essential for the germans because of their overstretched supply lines. the responsible t logistics general eduard wagner had only garantueed supplies until 600 km from the german border. so i guess there was a hidden agenda already then. also because the officers handbooks explicitely said nein to stuff like the sieges of sevastopol and stalingrad.
so what are you trying to say? that barbarosa was doomed from beginning? that was click bait for the germans, a trap for them, that anglos came up with? and the made that thing in hawaii as a pretext for war against emperial japan?
now waiting for the first abrams
ever seen the pentagon wars? most of the comedy was based on true events. the bradley was doomed from the start and probably why so many have been destroyed or lost in ukraine.