Demining coalition hands Ukraine new Inguar armored vehicles

Ukraine’s Support Forces, the branch that runs the military’s engineering and demining units, have received another batch of equipment from the international Demining Capability Coalition led by Lithuania and Iceland, including Ukrainian-built Inguar-3 mine-resistant armored vehicles.

The Support Forces Command announced the handover on Oct. 15 but did not list the full contents of the delivery or the number of vehicles. Maj. Gen. Dmytro Herega, the command’s commander, thanked partners for their steady support and said engineering units need reliable equipment to carry out both combat and humanitarian demining.

The Inguar-3 is a mine-resistant ambush protected vehicle, or MRAP, designed and built by Kyiv-based Inguar Defence on its own chassis rather than an adapted commercial truck. The manufacturer rates its steel and aluminum armor to STANAG 4569 Level 3, the NATO standard covering protection against 7.62 mm armor-piercing rounds, fragments from a 155 mm shell bursting 60 meters (about 200 feet) away, and an 8 kg (18-pound) mine blast under the hull. A 356-horsepower Deutz diesel and an Allison automatic gearbox drive the vehicle, which also has central tire inflation and run-flat inserts so crews can keep moving after a puncture.

Before entering service, the Inguar-3 covered about 10,000 km (6,200 miles) of trials, including combat testing with the National Guard’s Azov brigade in the Serebryansky Forest, and won its first orders from Ukrainian military customers in early 2025, The Defense Post reported. Inguar Defence later took the vehicle to the Eurosatory 2026 exhibition in Paris.

For deminers, a vehicle with that level of protection matters because sapper teams often work close to the front line, where they face mines along routes as well as artillery and drone strikes while moving between clearance sites.

Lithuania launched the Demining Capability Coalition in 2023 and invited Iceland to co-lead it, and the group now includes 23 member countries along with observers and partner organizations. Member states paid about 150 million euros ($168 million) into the coalition fund in 2024–2026, and the coalition used that money to buy and send Ukraine 89 million euros ($100 million) worth of equipment, the Lithuanian Ministry of National Defence said in June. Separately, Ukraine has received 608 million euros ($681 million) in donated demining equipment from countries including Germany, Lithuania, Finland and Denmark.

The coalition’s purchases have ranged from mine detectors and explosive ordnance disposal kits to trucks, ambulances, mine rollers and electronic warfare systems. At its June meeting in Lviv, the group handed over trucks, MRAP armored vehicles and minibuses bought with the fund.

Lithuanian officials describe Ukraine as the most heavily mine-contaminated country in the world, and the coalition plans to spend at least 165 million euros ($185 million) in 2026 on equipment, machinery and specialist training for Ukrainian demining units.