BRUSSELS, August 12. /TASS/. The Kiev regime has asked NATO for underwater demining equipment, including autonomous underwater vehicles, underwater metal detectors and remote detonation systems, allegedly for "humanitarian demining" purposes, according to a NATO document.

"The State Emergency Service of Ukraine has submitted the following request to NATO for <...> assistance in enhancing capabilities for humanitarian demining and transportation of explosive ordnance," the document reads.

According to the document, the request is for ten autonomous underwater vehicles, 20 sets of umbilical-supplied diving equipment with hard-shell helmets for diving operations at depths of over 50 meters, ten surface-based air supply and diver communication panels, 50 underwater metal detectors, 1,700 tactical ballistic goggles, and 100 remote detonation systems.

The version of the document published on the EADRCC website states that the diving equipment should be of the highest quality and, ideally, manufactured by Kirby Morgan.

In addition to underwater equipment, the Kiev regime requested 100 Vanguard robotic systems for explosive ordnance disposal, 100 maximum-protection explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) suits, and 200 medium-protection bomb suits, as well as hundreds of mine detectors, detonators and other demining equipment.

NATO, in turn, has asked member states to provide the requested equipment to Kiev and published the contact details of a liaison in Ukraine.