The US has donated hundreds of M2 Bradley IFVs to support Ukraine’s war effort against Russia as part of its massive program of military assistance. At least a third of them had reportedly been destroyed or heavily damaged as of this summer. Moscow has warned that no amount of Western aid can alter the outcome of the Ukraine conflict. By throwing more weapons at Kiev, the US and its allies simply make the cost of the hostilities higher, turning the crisis into a fight “to the last Ukrainian,” Russian officials have said. Since the start of the special military operation in Ukraine, the Russian Armed Forces have destroyed a total of 642 Ukrainian warplanes, 283 helicopters, 31,166 unmanned aerial vehicles, 579 surface-to-air missile systems, 17,969 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1,447 multiple launch rocket systems, 14,358 field artillery guns and mortars and 25,825 special military motor vehicles.
