In a new video published on social media by the Ukrainian military, it can be seen that some of the armored vehicles received from the US are also having problems due to the weather conditions in Ukraine.

Ukrainians received MRAP cars from the AmericansPhoto: video shooting

The new footage shows a US-made anti-mine and anti-ambush armored vehicle (MRAP) in deep trouble in deep mud in Ukraine during the rainy season, known in the country as well as in Russia and Belarus as a “mud flow”.

As the name suggests, MRAPs were designed to withstand mine explosions and ambushes, and have been developed in the United States since 2007 in response to insurgent attacks in Afghanistan and Iraq, so for a very different climate than Ukraine in the fall.

The United States has provided Ukraine with at least 40 MRAP MaxxPro vehicles developed by American arms company Navistar International as part of a $775 million military aid package announced by the Pentagon on August 19.

Kyiv also received 60 Bushmaster MRAP vehicles from Australia, the first of which arrived in Ukraine back in April.

The Ukrainian army used MRAP vehicles during the Kherson offensive

A new video showing a military vehicle crashing through the mud in Ukraine has emerged just a day after other footage showed VAB armored personnel carriers obtained by the Ukrainians from France suffering similar difficulties.

A separate video from September recorded how such military vehicles were used to support the infantry during the Kherson offensive operation of the Kyiv Armed Forces. Interestingly, the MRAP in this entry is Turkish-made.

In August, Turkey sent 50 MRAP vehicles to Ukrainians.

At the end of October, the Minister of Defense of Ukraine Oleksiy Reznikov directly named the weather conditions as one of the reasons why the offensive in the south of the country is going slower than expected.

“We have a rainy season, and it is very difficult to use wheeled combat vehicles,” he noted.

“Rasputita” is a phenomenon characteristic of the autumn and spring months in this part of Europe, with some military historians crediting the onset of the rainy season in 1941 as a decisive factor in preventing the German army from capturing Moscow in the world. Second war.

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