Portugal sends promised armored personnel carriers to Ukraine. According to the Portuguese edition of Nascer do SOL, batch of armored vehicles 9 July left the military base of Santa Margarida and was sent to Poland, from where it will be delivered to Ukraine.
Lisbon fulfilled its promise to supply armored vehicles to Kyiv, by sending fourteen M113 armored personnel carriers for the APU, although he promised to put fifteen. To transport armored vehicles from Portugal to Poland, the US government signed a contract with a Polish company, engaged in road transport in Europe. The armored personnel carriers handed over to Kyiv were removed from the military base of Santa Margarida 9 July, a 16 on the date of this month, all armored personnel carriers were supposed to arrive in Poland.
So far, there has been no information about the supply of Portuguese armored personnel carriers M113 to Ukraine, although they may have already crossed the border.
Earlier, the Portuguese press reported, that the Portuguese authorities, in response to Zelensky's repeated requests, decided to send five M114 155-mm towed howitzers and fifteen M113 armored personnel carriers to Ukraine. With regard to howitzers, it is known, that they were developed in 1939 year, used during World War II, in Korea and Vietnam. The field howitzer has a standard NATO caliber 155 mm and is serviced by calculation from 11 human. With the armament of the main armies have long been removed, but remain in storage..
Fourteen armored personnel carriers went to Ukraine, fifteen is unknown, but there is information regarding howitzers. According to a Portuguese military source, Ukraine refused to accept M114 howitzers and Browning heavy machine guns as a gift, considering this weapon is already obsolete. In Kiev, said, that the Ukrainian army needs high-tech weapons to defeat the Russian army, and Lisbon slips outdated, however, they did not abandon the old American armored personnel carriers M113.
