Ukraine counteroffensive: UK armoured vehicles help to save lives
At a field hospital near the front line in the southeast of the country, soldiers praise the extra protection offered by the likes of the Mastiff and Wolfhound
Ukrainian troops are taking heavy casualties as they continue their counteroffensive against dug-in Russian forces in southeastern Ukraine but far fewer of their men are being killed than expected, soldiers have said.
Cautious tactics — refusing to replicate the Russian method of full-frontal attack — along with better medical care and high-quality armoured vehicles supplied by Ukraine’s Nato allies, Britain among them, have combined to minimise the numbers killed so far during the six-week assault.
At secret repair workshops for armoured vehicles — many of them workhorses of the British Army such as the Mastiff and its Wolfhound variant — The Times was given a graphic example of how one of the less glamorous Nato offerings to the Ukrainian army is playing its part.
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