So Washington Post has come up with an interesting story from Ukraine and the state of the AFU
Wherever the new soldiers come from, Ukrainian field commanders said that because training is so deficient, they must often devote weeks to teaching them basic skills, such as how to shoot.
Some assault brigades might devote personnel to live practically full-time near training centers, the sergeant said, to quickly snatch up the youngest, fittest, most motivated men. The officer who was an instructor at a training center confirmed that some brigades indeed plot for first dibs.
“If they send us to recruit someone, all the good ones have already been taken by other brigades, and you have to choose from the crooked, lame, sick ones,” the sergeant said. “And so you choose from them, dammit.”
Some recruits, the sergeant said, are deemed physically fit despite being over age 50 with knee and back issues, meaning they will struggle to walk miles with a pack of gear and weapons, as is often required. Some brigades are ordered to take those men anyway.
“There are guys whom you just look in the eye and understand he’s hesitating,” the sergeant said. “He needs a push. He needs confidence in his weapon, confidence that we won’t abandon him, and he will fight.”
“And there are those who immediately say, ‘I won’t fight,’”
This is high time for Russia to intensify its attack and kill asl many AFU as possible, their opposition is now mainly made of weaklings, defeatists, and old men. All of which will die in the thousands in very short notice. It also helps that Ukraine is sending these cohort into the killing fields of Vovchansk. Where they'll die getting battered inside under fortified position.
“We are just wasting a lot of time here on basic training,” Schmidt said, adding: “If, God forbid, there will be a breakthrough near Chasiv Yar, and we get new infantry that doesn’t know basic things, they will be sent there to just die.”
had approximately 2,500 of the missiles in their inventory inventory as of late 2023. That included approximately 1100 of the older M39 variant and 1400 of the newer M48 and M57 variants, with a unitary warhead. Meanwhile, production rates for the missile remain at approximately 500 per year, with 200'ish missiles sold to foreign customers annually and 300 available to be purchased with USAI funding and shipped to Ukraine. Lockheed Martin is producing dozens of the missiles each month, allowing USA to be aggressive with how many they can send Ukraine.
has now received more than 300 Bradley M2-ODS IFVs from the United States 
according the the updated official American factsheet that tracks weapons sent to Ukraine from American inventories. The Bradley has become one of the favourite land based platforms of the Ukrainians, most notably of the 47th Brigade that have used them with exceptional effectiveness over the last year. That said, like all weapons in war, Bradley's are far from invincible and they've faced their share of attrition. Oryx notes that Ukraine is visually confirmed to have had 24 of their Bradleys damaged and 58 of them destroyed and / or captured. Assuming Ukraine has been able to repair 50% of the units that were damaged, Ukraine has 215-225 units available in its armed forces. As expected attrition continues over the coming year, the question becomes how many more can the Americans send from their stockpiles, to not only replenish losses, but bolster the fleet so that a second full brigade can be equipped with them?
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