Benefactors delivered Spartan armored personnel carriers to the Armed Forces of Ukraine

A batch of FV103 Spartan armored personnel carriers, purchased at the expense of benefactors, arrived in Ukraine.

The armored vehicles were delivered by the Petro Poroshenko Foundation along with the volunteers of the Sprava Hromad NGO.

Poroshenko announced that this first batch of armored personnel carriers will be deployed to the area of Bakhmut and Avdiyivka.

Ukrainian Air Assault Forces will probably be the ones reinforced with armored personnel carriers.

“The first Spartans are in Ukraine! And soon they will be near Bakhmut and Avdiyivka. Ukrainian Air Assault Forces, receive the reinforcements,” Petro Poroshenko said.

On November 9, it was reported that six CVR(T) armored vehicles were shipped from Great Britain to Ukraine.

According to the data of the State Service for Export Control of Ukraine, the first batch includes FV105 Sultan command and control vehicles and FV103 Spartan armored personnel carriers.

Documents and licenses to deliver 8 more CVR(T) armored vehicles are also in the works.

“6 armored vehicles out of a total of 14 have been contracted, including Spartan armored personnel carriers, Sultan armored command vehicles, and Samaritan ambulances, and will soon be in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Recently, we finally received the import license for Ukraine,” Poroshenko said.

A month ago, Ukrainian volunteers made an agreement with the British authorities to supply a batch of these armored vehicles.

It should be noted that each such delivery requires a minimum of three licenses. One concerns exports and is provided by the supplier country. The second is for transit and is approved by Poland. The third one is issued by the Ukrainian side.

According to Yurii Biriukov, each FV103 Spartan cost the volunteers £ 29,500. All vehicles have undergone a full overhaul, restoration, and maintenance. These were the conditions for purchasing this equipment, and without repairs, its cost would be lower.