'Change of Plans': Ukrainian Troops Get Vietnam War-era M113 APCs Instead of Bradley IFVs

MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Ukrainian military personnel have expressed concern that they are being provided with M113 armored personnel carriers instead of the American Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicles (IFVs) on which they were trained in Germany, British media has reported.

According to the publication, this issue directly concerns the 32nd Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers', they currently active in the Kupyansk region.

"Soldiers have complained that they were trained in Germany to operate Bradleys... but were instead equipped with Vietnam War-era M113s," the report said.

Bradley IFVs were introduced into the US Armed Forces in the early 1980s, while the M113's origins date back to the early 1960s.

Russian forces have successfully been relieving Ukrainian soldiers of their NATO-supplied military equipment, destroying it everywhere.

On August 28, Russian ships obliterated a Ukrainian depot of aviation weapons

"Tonight [on Sunday night], the naval forces carried out a group strike with sea-based long-range high-precision weapons on a depot of aviation weapons and ammunition of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The goal of the strike was achieved. The object was hit," the ministry said.

On August 29, the Dnepr Battlegroup over the day destroyed a hangar with weapons and military equipment of the Ukrainian forces, as well as a Grad MLRS near Kherson, a source familiar with the situation told Sputnik.

"Over the past day the soldiers of the Dnepr grouping in the Kherson direction wiped out a hangar with weapons and military equipment of one of the units of the Ukrainian forces, eliminated eight soldiers, 11 were wounded, 13 units of automotive equipment put out of action, Grad multiple rocket launcher system (MLRS) with a crew of three people and ammunition," the interlocutor of the agency mentioned.

The Russian military in the Donetsk direction destroyed a Ukrainian railway train with ammunition, the ministry stated.

"A reconnaissance unit of the Russian Armed Forces detected the arrival of a military train with artillery ammunition at the unloading station," the ministry said. “The coordinates of the target were promptly transferred to the calculation of the missile system, which carried out a precision strike,” the ministry added. “Wagons with shells, about 30 Ukrainian military personnel and up to ten units of equipment were destroyed,” the ministry noted.

Soviet Weapons, Please

Since the beginning of the special operation, NATO countries and their allies have been supplying military equipment to Kiev. While initially the alliance provided various relatively modern pieces, including unmanned aerial vehicles, tanks, and armored vehicles, later, the old Soviet weapons, which were still stored in warehouses in Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic, began to be sent to Ukraine. Now, Ukraine has successfully buried much of the military assistance and demands Soviet-made weapons due to the lack of Western alternatives, which have been destroyed by the Russian military.