According to the adviser to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Anton Gerashchenko, Vmlnyus will hand over M113 armored personnel carriers to KievKYIV, September 17.
/tass/. Lithuania will repair Ukrainian self-propelled artillery installations and hand over M113 armored personnel carriers to Ukraine. This was announced on Saturday by the adviser to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Anton Gerashchenko.
"Lithuania will repair Ukrainian self-propelled guns (Self-propelled artillery installations - approx. TASS) Panzerhaubitze 2000 and will hand over the M113 armored personnel carriers," he wrote in his Telegram channel.
Lithuania was the first of the NATO countries in 2014 to officially admit that it had supplied elements of weapons to Ukraine, without specifying what was meant. After a while, the Ukrainian side reported that it was a lethal Soviet-made weapon. In February 2019, Vilnius handed over to Kiev the ammunition removed from service - more than 1 million cartridges for Soviet-made submachine guns. In October 2021, the Lithuanian government approved the supply of bulletproof vests and ballistic (unloading) belts to Ukraine worth €676 thousand.
In February of this year, Ukraine received a batch of portable Stinger anti-aircraft missile systems from Lithuania. In April, the Ministry of Defense of the Republic announced that it was transferring to Ukraine a batch of heavy mortars, the cost of which is tens of millions of euros. In July, Vilnius announced the transfer of M-113 and M-577 armored personnel carriers to Kiev. A Bayraktar-type combat drone with air-to-ground missiles was also handed over to Ukraine.
