20 sapper teams of the Armed Forces of Ukraine receive mine clearance kits

3 October, 2023 The Armed Forces of Ukraine received mine clearance equipment from donors. October 2023. Photo credits: Come Back Alive Foundation

The Come Back Alive Foundation has provided 20 engineering and demining teams of the Armed Forces of Ukraine with pickup trucks and mine clearance equipment. The transfer of vehicles and equipment took place within the "We Live Here" project, implemented jointly with Kyivstar. The Come Back Alive Foundation announced this on social media.

"Last year, our defenders from this unit of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were demining the Kharkiv region liberated from the invaders. They had a rotation to Bakhmut. Now they are working in the Kupyansk direction," the statement reads.

Each of the 20 sapper teams of the Armed Forces of Ukraine received:

  • pickup truck;
  • Autel EVO Nano+ quadcopter;
  • tablet with a protective case and memory card;
  • 3 Motorola radios;
  • 3 personal and group mine clearance kits;
  • 3 tactical sappers kits;
  • metal detector;
  • blasting unit with a charger;
  • ohmmeter, probes, 2 coils of wire.

The Foundation also handed over seven modular explosive protective suits to Ukrainian soldiers.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine received mine clearance equipment from donors. October 2023.

Photo credits: Come Back Alive Foundation

The total value of the transferred vehicles and equipment is UAH 26 million 45 thousand 556. The Come Back Alive Foundation has already provided 51 sapper teams from six units with such equipment to the tune of over UAH 71.5 million within the "We Live Here" project. Together with Kyivstar, the Come Back Alive Foundation is raising UAH 175 million to equip 146 sapper teams of the Armed Forces Support Force.

The "We Live Here" project was launched in May this year.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine received mine clearance equipment from donors. October 2023. Photo credits: Come Back Alive Foundation

So far, more than UAH 105 million has been raised to implement the initiative.

The sappers of the Support Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are operating both in the already liberated territories and in the areas where active hostilities with Russian invaders are taking place.

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