The Speedy Intervention and Main Foam Automobiles will arrive in Ukraine within the coming weeks (Image: PA/Reuters)
The UK will provide Ukraine with 17 specialist fireplace engines to assist them defend in opposition to Russia’s relentless missile and drone assaults.
The Speedy Intervention and Main Foam Automobiles, sourced from the Royal Air Drive, Defence Fireplace and Rescue and the Welsh Meeting, are set to reach within the coming weeks, the Ministry of Defence stated.
Defence Secretary Ben Wallace stated the autos would increase the nation’s skill to guard its infrastructure amid the Kremlin’s marketing campaign of missile and drone assaults.
The Ukrainian army fireplace service has already carried out every week’s coaching at RAF Wittering to familiarise themselves with the tools in preparation.
They have been delivered from areas across the UK to the Cambridgeshire army base, the place personnel are inspecting and getting ready them earlier than their onward journey to Ukraine.
On account of arrive within the coming weeks, the urgently-needed tools will assist bolster Ukraine’s skill to reply to harm brought on by Russia’s continued use of cruise missiles and one-way assault drones in opposition to Ukrainian infrastructure.
Mr Wallace stated: ‘These specialist firefighting autos will increase Ukraine’s skill to guard its infrastructure from Russia’s marketing campaign of missile and drone assaults and proceed our assist for Ukraine, for so long as it takes.’
Defence chief fireplace officer Sim Nex stated: ‘The Defence Fireplace and Rescue household are extraordinarily pleased with the specialist assist which we’ve got been capable of facilitate.
The Ukrainian army fireplace service has already carried out every week’s coaching (Image: PA)
The urgently-needed tools will assist bolster Ukraine’s skill to reply to harm (Image: State Emergency Service of Ukraine/Handout/Anadolu Company by way of Getty Photos)
‘We’re assured that the tools offered up to now, and related coaching, will straight improve firefighting functionality, as we contemplate additional alternatives to assist the Ukrainian Navy Fireplace Service transferring ahead.’
Air Commodore Jamie Thompson, commander of World Enablement, stated: ‘Help to Ukraine, via coaching and the supply of kit, stays a precedence of RAF World Enablement.
‘We’re proud to work alongside our allies on this effort, supplying specialist tools and coaching to guarantee the security of the Ukrainian individuals.’
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