CV90 infantry fighting vehicles, delivered to Kyiv from Sweden, reached the front line in eastern Ukraine, deploying around the city of Bakhmut in Donetsk region, reports Forbes, which expressively compares the equipment to “chainsaws.”

Forbes journalists recall that while the long-awaited Ukrainian offensive launched this month appears to be focused on the Zaporizhzhia region in the south of the country, Kyiv forces are also attacking both flanks of the city of Bakhmut, which they lost after 10 months of Russian action. forces threw huge resources into the battle here.

Like the AMX-10 BMP promised to Ukraine by France, the Swedish CV90s are sometimes called “light tanks” because of their gun. In the case of CV90 vehicles, they can be equipped with cannons that fire up to 120 millimeter projectiles, depending on the model selected.

In the case of those donated to Ukraine, they are equipped with a 40mm CV9040C gun that can target a “helicopter hovering at a distance of four kilometers”, according to the Swedish Armed Forces.

The machine weighs 37 tons, has a crew of 3 people and can transport up to 6 soldiers to the front. Its developers have optimized it for mechanized work in the forest areas of Sweden, so it has also become popular among other Nordic countries.

“There are also a lot of trees in Eastern Ukraine, many of them in commercial plantations,” Forbes mentions about why Swedish armored vehicles were sent there.

What the Ukrainian army said about Swedish armored vehicles

On May 31, the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine announced that it would “soon” receive these Swedish combat vehicles, which it called “one of the most modern in the world.”

“Ukraine will be protected by some of the most modern infantry fighting vehicles. The Armed Forces of Ukraine will receive CV-90 armored vehicles. This will be another powerful help from the Swedish partners,” the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine said in a message on the Telegram channel at the time.

The Combat Vehicle 90 (CV90) is actually a family of Swedish tracked combat vehicles developed by the Swedish Logistics Agency, Hägglunds and Bofors from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s, which entered service with the Swedish Armed Forces in the mid-1990s years

All Scandinavian countries have CV90 armored vehicles, as do Switzerland, the Netherlands and Estonia. Two other countries, Slovakia and the Czech Republic, recently signed purchase contracts for €1.2 billion and €2.2 billion, respectively.

On June 9, Sweden announced that it had completed training the Ukrainian military to operate 50 CV90 armored vehicles handed over to Kyiv. In January, the Stockholm government announced that it would transfer 50 CV90 armored vehicles to Ukraine.

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