The Government of Japan has handed over two Nikken mechanized demining vehicles to the State Emergency Service (SES), which will be sent to Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk regions on July 9, the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported.
“We would like to thank the government and the Embassy of Japan, as well as the JICA international cooperation agency, for their help and joint resilience in difficult times for Ukraine,” Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko was quoted as saying in a statement on the press service’s Telegram channel on Tuesday:
For his part, Japanese Ambassador to Ukraine Matsuda Kuninori expressed his admiration for the pyrotechnics and sappers who are tirelessly clearing Ukrainian soil of explosive devices.
“The transferred vehicles will be sent to Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk regions today to perform the necessary tasks,” the statement said.
