How long would it take to reintegrate these captured tanks/howitzers
@jhungary ?
Into new ukranian BTG? Seems like they have enough to fuel another offensive just from russias generous donations
Assuming the Russian did not spike those guns (like putting a C4 inside the barrel or temper with it) before leaving them for the Ukrainian. It won't take long, for Field Artillery, you basically just tow it and have ammunition ready, and they are ready to go. For SPG, that's a bit longer because you need to make sure those track and engine does work, and the gun is in ready to fire position, then all it takes is to get it to the unit you are going to give it to and they can use it.
That's because Ukrainian operate Soviet/Russian equipment to begin with, they are most likely properly trained with those system (like S30, 2S3, 2S19 and so on)
The question however, is do they want to? Ukraine has expanded almost their entire Russian munition stock, and the west don't supply as much Soviet munition to Ukraine than NATO standard munition, so at some point there are going to be more NATO munition than Soviet Stock, right now I think they can still use it, and depends on the ammo dump they captured, they can probably use it a while, but if the stock is low, it's more sensible to use these captured weapon in a defensive role than in an offensive role, like putting them into reserve.
About another push and another offensive. As I mentioned some post ago, the Ukrainian are using TDF brigade instead of their regular brigade, none of the 3 regular brigade were used in this push, (93 mech, 81 Airmobile and 53 Mech were known to have operate in Izyum direction conducting offensive operation) Which suggest the Ukrainian is holding back, now I don't know if they held back those unit, it could be for any reason, from giving them a strategic break and do some R and O, or they want to redeploy them somewhere in the line, or holding them back to act as reserve for this offensive, I don't know, all I know is if the Ukrainian want to continue on with this counter offensive, they still have fresh manpower to do this.