The Swiss company Global Clearance Solutions, a manufacturer of robotic demining platforms, has opened a service and maintenance facility in Kyiv.
The company announced this on its website.
Fabian Klauser, Head of Service and Maintenance, emphasizes that the constant availability of the equipment ensures sustainable best use of international mine clearance investment to date and in the future.
“Our workshop can accommodate several GCS-200 machines, which are perfectly suited to eliminate explosive threats for agricultural land and ensure infrastructure such as electricity pylons can be repaired and essential power restored to civilians. There is also space for the smaller GCS-100,” Klauser said.
GCS Technical Support Team Lead Florian Loeffler is also excited to welcome the facility and the continued partnership with SESU, Nibulon, and other Ukrainian organizations to meet the challenge of eliminating explosive threats and creating safe environments.
“Our workshop is an essential element of our end-to-end involvement with clients and international donors. Equipment that is working is saving lives, day in, day out,” Loeffler noted.
Before that, an initiative specialist of the company using a mobile workshop was conducting the repairs.
At the beginning of October, Militarnyi reported that Nibulon received its first mine-clearing vehicle from Global Clearance Solutions.
The German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the German State Development Bank (KFW DEG) were funding the order for the demining vehicles.
In addition, it was reported that Ukrainian sappers have received two demining vehicles from the Canadian government.
A Swiss company has signed a memorandum with the Ministry of Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories to manufacture about 20 unmanned vehicles.
GCS management has announced its intention to supply about 20 mine-clearing vehicles to Ukraine within a year.
The parties agreed to cooperate in the field of technical and non-technical explosive ordnance surveys of the territories and to educate the population of the liberated areas about the risks associated with mines and unexploded ordnance.