United to win: Japan donates 40 special vehicles and demining equipment to Ukraine

Japan provided 40 vehicles and demining equipment to the pyrotechnic units, which are directly involved in clearing the Ukrainian land of mines and unexploded shells.

The Ministry of Economy of Ukraine reported this.

The department said that Ukraine was given:

• 20 pickup trucks,
• 20 station wagon-type cars,
• 50 ALIS metal detectors from JICA,
• 150 containers of fire extinguishing liquid from Shabondama Soap Co., Ltd.

This pecial equipment from Japan will help in demining territories affected by Russian military aggression.

The Ministry informed that the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan, Iwata Kazuchika, and the Ambassador of Japan to Ukraine, Kuninori Matsuda, took part in the handover ceremony.

"Ukraine is extremely grateful to Japan for the support and assistance that your country has already provided us since the beginning of the large-scale invasion and continues to provide. The current aid is precious to us. Because thanks to it, we will be able to make our land safe faster.

The transferred machinery and equipment will help to equip and make mobile no less than forty groups of minelayers. And this is dozens and hundreds of saved lives of Ukrainians; this is a faster return of agricultural land to use," the First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine – Minister of Economy of Ukraine Yuliya Svyrydenko, said.

It is noted that almost every month, the Japanese government transfers to Ukraine:

• technical equipment,
• automotive equipment,
• demining machines for the fastest possible cleaning of our territories and water.

In addition, Ukraine plans to train 5,000 sappers and pyrotechnicians by the end of next year. Therefore, at the same time as training, it is necessary to equip military personnel and rescuers who care for demining with automobiles, special transport, and equipment.

The Japanese government transfers equipment to Ukraine directly and through several organizations, including the UN.

For reference:

As noted by the Ministry of Economy, a number of aid projects initiated or financed by Japan have been implemented or are being implemented for Ukraine.

So, earlier, the State Emergency Service was transferred:

• 12 operational pyrotechnic machines, purchased by UNICEF with the support of the Government of Japan,
• Thirty trucks (as part of implementing the "Capacity Development Project in Humanitarian Demining and Disposal of Explosive Objects").

During 2022-2023, the UNDP Representative Office in Ukraine, with the support of the Government of Japan, implemented a project of international technical assistance in the field of humanitarian demining, within the framework of which the State Emergency Service received cars for pyrotechnic groups, equipment, equipment for sappers, etc.

Implementing the "Improvement of equipment for humanitarian demining" projects, designed until 2025, is underway. The projects are implemented within the framework of the Grant Agreement for the Emergency Recovery Program between the Government of Ukraine and the Japan International Cooperation Agency.

It should be noted that Japan plans to allocate 160 million euros to support projects for the economic recovery of Ukraine.