Roshel has sent nearly 3,000 Senator vehicles to Ukraine

Nearly 3,000 Senator armored vehicles built by Canadian manufacturer Roshel have now gone to Ukraine, the company said on social media as it placed one of its first-generation Senator MRAPs on permanent display at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa.

The figure makes the Senator one of the most numerous Western-supplied armored vehicles in Ukrainian service. Roshel did not give an exact count or say how many of the vehicles were paid for by Canada, by Ukraine itself or by other donor countries.

“Nearly 3,000 Senators have gone to Ukraine, a symbol of Canadian support for those defending their country,” Roshel said.

The company’s tally has climbed steadily since Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022. Roshel said it had delivered 1,400 Senators by the fall of 2024 and more than 2,000 by December 2025, and the Canadian Defence Review put the number at more than 2,700 this week. The Senator is used by Ukraine’s armed forces and its Border Guard Service to carry troops, evacuate wounded and run patrols and reconnaissance.

A first-generation Roshel Senator MRAP is displayed at the Canadian War Museum, highlighting Canada’s support for Ukraine.

Canada’s own donations make up only part of the total. Ottawa announced its first package of 200 Senators in January 2023, worth CAD 90 million, and in February 2026 it committed another 383 Senators along with 66 LAV 6 armored vehicles from General Dynamics Land Systems Canada. Other countries have bought Senators for Ukraine through aid packages, and Ukraine has purchased some directly.

The Senator is built on a Ford F-550 heavy commercial truck chassis, a choice that lets Roshel produce it faster and more cheaply than purpose-built armored vehicles. The MRAP version, short for mine-resistant ambush-protected, meets NATO STANAG 4569 protection Levels 2 and 3 and is designed to survive the detonation of up to 8 kg (17.6 pounds) of explosives. Founded in 2016 in Brampton, Ontario, Roshel began building the Senator in 2018, mainly for police and security agencies in North America, before wartime orders from Ukraine expanded its production. Canada’s defense minister said in March that the program supports close to 500 jobs in Brampton and nearby Mississauga.

Roshel also sells the Senator well beyond Ukraine, including to U.S. federal agencies. NASA used a Senator to escort astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center for SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Demo-2 mission in May 2020, the first crewed launch from U.S. soil in nearly a decade. In November 2025, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement awarded Roshel a sole-source contract worth about $7.3 million for 20 Senator emergency response vehicles, CBC News reported, citing procurement records that said only Roshel could deliver within 30 days. ICE said the vehicles qualify under Buy American rules because they are produced in the United States; Roshel opened a plant in Michigan in 2024. The deal drew criticism from some Canadian politicians and advocacy groups over ICE’s immigration enforcement. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is also buying a Senator for its special response team.

Elsewhere, Mexico selected the Senator MRAP earlier this year after trials with its armed forces and national guard, and Moldova’s military is due to receive more than 100 Senators funded by the European Union by May 2027. The company has also supplied vehicles to Haiti, Brazil, South Korea, Costa Rica and Bosnia and Herzegovina.