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Ukraine receives final batch of BTR-4E vehicles

24th August 2020 - 16:15 GMT | by Flavia Camargos Pereira in London

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Ukraine has reached a milestone in its effort to improve the mobility of its ground forces with the delivery of the last batch of 8x8 BTR-4E APCs.

The Kharkiv Design Bureau for Mechanical Engineering (HKBM), the supplier of the BTR-4E and part of the Ukroboronprom group, on 14 August announced the delivery of the final four BTR-4Es to the Ukrainian MoD. In total, 45 vehicles were handed over under a contract signed in 2016.

An official spokesperson for Ukroboronprom explained to Shephard that the BTR-4E can be operated in different climates, regardless of the season, both on roads with different

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Flavia Camargos Pereira is a North America editor at Shephard Media. She joined the company …

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