The 92nd Mechanized Brigade, billeted just south of the strategic city of Kharkiv, is one of the best-trained and best-equipped units in Ukraine’s 145,000-person active army.
with an uprated 1,000-horsepower engine and improved fire-control including modern night-vision sights.
The 92nd’s impressive kit belies just how unprepared the brigade was when the Russians first attacked back in 2014. Like much of the Ukrainian army, the 92nd was under-manned, under-equipped and starved for funds. That’s when Moscow sent in its own regular battalions. A powerful Russian force surrounded the Ukrainians in Ilovaisk. Desperate to relieve the encircled troops, Kiev ordered the 92nd Mechanized Brigade to attack.
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