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 by AFP Staff Writers Bratislava (AFP) May 3, 2022
A Slovak company will repair damaged Ukrainian military equipment following a request from Kyiv, the defence ministry said on Tuesday. The state-run Konstrukta-Defence firm has "concluded a contract with the Ukrainian side on repairing and modernising Ukrainian military technology," defence ministry spokeswoman Martina Koval Kakascikova said. The first lot will consist of dozens of BRDM-2 armoured reconnaissance vehicles. Slovak Prime Minister Eduard Heger and Defence Minister Jaroslav Nad earlier declared their willingness to help Ukraine with damaged weaponry. "We were asked by Ukraine whether our companies would be able to repair damaged Ukrainian equipment. That is, the damaged equipment would come to Slovakia, we would repair it and the equipment would return to Ukraine, " Nad has said in early April. Based in Lieskovec in eastern Slovakia, Konstrukta-Defence repairs vehicles and military technology of all categories used by Slovak armed forces, according to the company's website. The company also produces self-propelled gun howitzers.
Russia urges US, NATO to halt Kyiv arms supply: state media Beijing (AFP) April 30, 2022 Russia's foreign minister urged the US and NATO to stop supplying Kyiv with arms if they are "really interested in resolving the Ukraine crisis", Chinese state media reported Saturday. Months into an invasion that failed in its short-term aim of capturing Kyiv, Moscow is now intensifying operations in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region. But Sergei Lavrov told China's official Xinhua news agency that the "special military operation... is proceeding strictly according to plan". China has avoided ... read more
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