{"id":5828,"date":"2015-10-20T13:32:42","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T13:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/?p=5828"},"modified":"2015-12-24T14:49:27","modified_gmt":"2015-12-24T14:49:27","slug":"the-adventures-of-the-american-humvee-all-terrain-vehicle-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informnapalm.org\/en\/the-adventures-of-the-american-humvee-all-terrain-vehicle-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"The Adventures of the American Humvee All-Terrain Vehicle in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Conducting another OSINT investigation to identify the concentration areas of the Russian occupation army’s troops and equipment, we found the photos of the American Humvee army offroader in the territory<\/a> of the\u00a0former city\u00a0department of the Interior Ministry in\u00a0Luhansk.<\/p>\n

The noticed Humvee model – a version of\u00a0HMMWV <\/b>\u041c1097\u04102\u00a0<\/b>modernized by Lviv Machinery and Repair Plant. It was initially planned to use these vehicles in operations of the Ukrainian-Polish KFOR<\/a> forces in Kosovo. The vehicles are in service of the 95th separate airmobile brigade.
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This is a\u00a0photo from a\u00a0social network which shows a Ukrainian serviceman near Debaltseve in front of the\u00a0Humvee\u00a0\u041c1097\u04102 still being in service of the Ukrainian army.<\/p>\n

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And this is a frame from the video taken by reporters of the APTN international agency near Debaltseve in February of 2015.\u00a0Humvee\u00a0\u041c1097\u04102 is already under the control of the Russian occupation forces.<\/p>\n

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Another pictures of the ‘lost’ Humvee.<\/p>\n

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HMMWV <\/b>\u041c1097\u04102 <\/b>all-terrain vehicle was seen in possession of a militant<\/a> from Luhansk occupation corps today – accordingly, it is located in the city of Luhansk. Frankly speaking, we would not have\u00a0been able to identify the location if the ‘This is our city’ panel picture<\/a> did not exist (marked with red in the photos\u00a0below).<\/p>\n

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“Some of the HMMWV \u041c1097\u04102 vehicles were lost during the combat actions in the zone of ATO”, reports<\/a>\u00a0the U.M.P. information-analytic resource showing several destroyed and burnt Humvee cars. But very seldom (almost NEVER) the Ukrainian media talk about the equipment which was not just lost, but transferred to the terrorists.<\/p>\n

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But this is not the first case of such loss of the battle-ready equipment. Not so long ago\u00a0a similar story about another vehicle lost near Debaltseve\u00a0was covered in the “Where And When Was the \u2018Fortress on Wheels\u2019 KrAZ Armored Vehicle Lost?”<\/a> article.<\/p>\n

On the contrary, the equipment and inventory clumsy write-off procedures remain the constant problem of the Ukrainian army. In case of lost (back-ordered, sometimes) supplies the soldiers\u00a0are made responsible for that and need to pay their own money. Formally, the orders and decrees governing the write-off procedures already exist\u00a0(“The order of write-off of military equipment in the Armed Forces of Ukraine”<\/a>, from January 12, 2015).\u00a0However, it is not always possible to get the commander to bring them to life.<\/strong><\/p>\n