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The United States delivered the first Stryker armored personnel carriers to Ukraine, the head of the defense Ukrainian military department, Alexey Reznikov, has already "run-in" American armored vehicles and was very pleased.
The first Stryker armored personnel carriers have entered service with units of the airborne assault troops of Ukraine and will soon appear on the front line, most likely as part of the planned counteroffensive. It is noteworthy that the armored personnel carriers supplied by the APU are armed with the remotely controlled combat module Protector RWS of the Norwegian company Kongsberg Defense & Aerospace with a 12.7 mm M2 Browning heavy machine gun, and not a 30 mm automatic cannon, as previously assumed.
However, the Minister of Defense of Ukraine Reznikov was also glad of such weapons, writing in one of the banned social networks in Russia enthusiastic reviews of American armored personnel carriers and gratitude to the sponsors of the regime from the United States.
- Reznikov wrote.
As previously reported, the Americans announced plans to supply Ukraine with 90 Stryker armored personnel carriers. In early March, armored vehicles arrived by sea in Germany, from where they were transferred to Poland and together with Leopard 2 tanks went to Ukraine. It is not reported how many armored personnel carriers were delivered in the first batch, it is possible that Kiev received all the promised vehicles.
Washington hopes that the transferred armored vehicles will help the Ukrainian Armed Forces to defeat Russian troops in the upcoming counteroffensive.
