Ukraine hopes to build troop strength and establish at least 10 brigades, many of them mechanized by early 2025.
I would note that 10 brigades is probably enough to keep chewing up Russian offensives, but it's at least 4-8 brigades short of what Ukraine would need to recapture and hold lost territory.
@Lulz4l1f3 Ukraine's biggest mistake was giving up their nuclear missiles with the promise that the US and its allies would protect them from Russia.
@h8cloz They gave those up with the promise the US and Russia would protect them.
@Lulz4l1f3 They shouldn't have trusted Russia or the US.
The US has been a pretty good partner. There have been hiccups since Republicans took the house and delayed funding for 8 months, and no doubt they will do so again...
But... we are providing millions of artillery shells, thousands of missiles, hundreds of armored units, and a crapload of small arms.
I don't doubt our current commitment in the Senate and Biden admin.
I do worry about their troop strength, however.
I noticed you exonerated Russia when it was the US and Russia that promised to protect Ukraine.
In fact, Russia engaged in subterfuge training separatists and then used the "protect Ukraine" as an excuse supply separatists and then invade ostensibly to protect Ukraine from fictional Nazis in 2014.
@Lulz4l1f3 I don't exonerate Russia. We should have wiped them out in the 1950s when we had the chance.
I wonder if this is the cause of the rift between the US DoD and AFU? Ukraine appears to be fighting a war of attrition, and I doubt the Pentagon thinks that's the way to go.
They need more brigades to hold territory, and should be attacking forward staging areas like they did this week cutting off logistics to Crimea.