Within 12 weeks, Germany’s largest military industrial plant, Rheinmetall, manufacturer of Leopard 2 tanks and Lynx armored personnel carriers, will establish a tank factory in Ukraine – according to plans, their plant in Ukraine will not produce the most modern tanks. and armored personnel carriers, but Róka (fuchs) armored personnel carriers (TPz, Pszh.) will be produced, which the Ukrainian army needs at least heavy armored vehicles and armored personnel carriers.
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22nd Medical Platoon of TPz 1 Fuchs Pszh in front of Westphalia Barracks in Ahelen.
The factory will also have a maintenance plant with newly trained Ukrainian maintenance personnel. “Ukrainians have to help themselves. It is unsustainable to always wait for European and American help in the next ten to twenty years,” Armin Papperger, CEO of Rheinmetall, told CNN in an interview last Thursday. Public on Monday.
The factory will be established in the western part of the country.
Papperger previously told regional German newspaper Rheinische Post about his company’s plans, and later said he would build a factory in Ukraine within the framework of an investment worth two hundred million euros. Year. The factory is jointly owned with the Ukrainian military industrial enterprise Ukroboronprom.
Speaking to Reuters, former Russian president and deputy chairman of the Russian National Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, has already threatened Russia with military action. Either way, this is essentially Medvedev’s job, whose job it is to threaten a blow in response to any perceived or real Russian harm. According to Paperkar, there is no reason to worry, the factory will be protected from Russian attacks. “There are currently a lot of factories producing military equipment in Ukraine, and this will be the only one left, and it can be protected,” he said. (via CNN)