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Germany hands over APCs, artillery shells, IRIS-T missiles to Ukraine

31 January, 2024 Wednesday
16:20

Germany has provided another package of military assistance to Ukraine. It includes, among other things, more than 1,000 pieces of 155 mm artillery ammunition.

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The full list is published on the federal government's website.

In addition to the artillery, the package includes:

  • 24 armoured personnel carriers (the same number had already been delivered earlier),
  • 4 Bandvagn 206 (BV206) multi-purpose tracked vehicles (69 of them were previously delivered to the Armed Forces),
  • 1 BIBER bridge paver with spare parts (14 units are already in use),
  • 3 WISENT 1 demining tanks (Ukraine has a total of 19 such tanks),
  • 14 special devices for demining tanks (11 were previously transferred).

Germany also handed over to Ukraine an IRIS-T air defence missile, a sea mine countermeasures system, a Satcom video surveillance system, 4 vehicles for border guards, 450 snow chains (for vehicles) and 194,000 dry rations for the military.

  • The day before, Energoatom reported that Germany had provided €14.6 million worth of equipment to Ukraine that will allow it to modernise the physical protection systems of Rivne and South Ukrainian NPPs.
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