Ukraine has supplied armored vehicles to Iraq by half a billion dollars

Ukraine in April, will deliver the first batch of armored vehicles to Iraq within the framework of large-scale contracts in excess of $ 550 million Thursday from the Iraqi employer signed the acceptance certificate for the first batch of armored vehicles in the amount of 26 cars, according to Interfax-Ukraine, citing a source in the state-owned Ukrspetsexport . According to him, the delivery vehicle is scheduled for April. As reported in 2009, a subsidiary of state-owned Ukrspetsexport - SOE "Specialized Foreign Trade Firm" Progress "has signed a contract with Iraq worth more than $ 550 million, which is supposed to be one of a series of upcoming agreements on military-technical cooperation between Ukraine and Iraq. The contract provides for delivery within 3-3,5 years, more than 400 armored vehicles, in particular the BTR-4, 6 light transport aircraft An-32, as well as carrying out services related to repair of aircraft. Among the major artists of the contract will make the Kharkov machine-building design bureau im.Morozova (KMDB) and state enterprise "Zavod im. Malysheva (Kharkiv), GP Antonov (Kiev). As we have previously reported on the breakdown in the supply of armored vehicles in Iraq and the penalty the Iraqi side.